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OR 

The  Science  of  Immorality. 
jo  gentlemen. 


BY 

A  WOMAN  PHYSICIAN  AND  SURGEON. 


PHILADELPHIA : 
Wm.  H.  Boyd,  UT  Sansom  St. 
1878. 


Entered  according  to  Act  of  Congress,  in  the  year  1878,  by 
Wm.  H.  BOYD, 
In  the  Office  of  the  Librarian  of  Congress,  at  Washington,  D.  C. 


CONTENTS. 

CHAPTER  L 
Introduction,  1 

CHAPTER  II. 
Equality,  10 

CHAPTER  III. 
Pure  Manhood,  17 

CHAPTER  lY. 
Hermaphrodites,       -  -  31 

CHAPTER  V. 
Morning  Sickness  of  Men,       -       -       -       -  45- 

CHAPTER  YL 
Kissing,  49 

CHAPTER  YIL 
Hymens,  53 


iv  CONTENTS. 

CHAPTER  YIII. 
Seminal  Weakness,  - 


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CHAPTER  IX. 
Barrenness,  61 

CHAPTER  X. 
Social  Evil,  71 

CHAPTER  XI. 
Hernia,  134 

CHAPTER  XIL 
The  Language  of  the  iTerves,  -  138 


CHAPTER  1. 

Introduction, 

A  number  of  "private  treatises"  have  been  written 
'''to  women  exclusively,"  by  men  physicians.  This 
w^as  before  women  were  regular  M.  D's.,  or  before  any 
woman  had  many  years'  practice  in  the  profession. 

If  women  generally  can  be  benefited  by  such 
books,  it  is  but  fair  to  suppose  that  men  generally 
may  be  benefited  by  women  physicians  writing 
^'private  treatises"  to  men,  embodying  advice,  facts, 
observations,  discoveries,  etc.,  that  are  all  important 
for  men  to  learn  in  a  pure  way  as  matters  of  science, 
instead  of  acquiring  with  the  most  degraded  ideas 
of  life,  and  only  such  parts  as  are  demoralizing  and 
filled  wdth  the  grossest  errors. 

It  is  very  evident  that  the  great  need  of  light 
among  men  has  not  been  properly  met  by  men ; 
spo  man  has  elaborated  on  important  points  in  the 
direction  that  is  most  vital,  and  hence  it  becomes 
the  duty  of  whomsoever  can  peer  into  the  darkness 
with  a  light,  to  do  so  with  all  speed,  even  if  such 
light  be  no  larger  than  a  glow-worm,  it  may  be  the 
humble  means  of  guiding  many  a  weary  one  into 
a  lost  path,  and  of  preventing  myriads  from  losing 
the  path  of  rectitude  who  are  now"  approaching  man- 
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hood,  to  say  nothing  about  those  in  the  great  future, 
whose  need  for  light  shall  be  as  great  as  those  now 
traveling  in  the  bewildering  paths  of  existence. 

Knowledge  must  ever  be  the  basic  principle  upon 
which  the  purest  morals  are  founded.  It  is  upon 
this  corner  stone  of  life's  monumental  building  that 
grand  towers  of  soul  reach  the  zenith  of  human  ex- 
cellence in  middle  age,  and  are  crowned  with  the 
beautiful  verdure  of  ripe  years'  real  worth. 

With  all  the  strides  that  have  been  made  in  art 
and  science  for  the  past  one  hundred  years,  the 
philanthropist  must  view  with  the  deepest  sorrow 
that  but  little  progress  has  been  made  in  morals,  so 
little,  that  the  men  who  even  make  pretensions  to 
purity  of  manhood  are  conspicuously  few.  The  ma- 
jority of  men  have  no  high  moral  standard,  but  with- 
out shame  assert  that  they  are  as  good  as  any  other 
men,  and  carry  the  idea,  that,  as  they  have  become  self- 
complacent,  women  ought  to  be  satisfied  with  what- 
ever standard  of  morals  men  choose  to  be  reconciled 
to  for  themselves. 

Men  would  be  amazed  if  women  should  assert  that 
such  a  standard  was  a  low  one  and  did  not  corres- 
pond with  a  true  woman's  ideas  of  noble  manhood, 
and  that  it  was  just  as  good  a  standard  for  woman's 
morale  as  it  is  for  men's,  (a  position  that  is  just  as 
fair  for  women  to  take  as  for  men,  as  any  one  with 
logic  must  admit.) 


INTRODUCTION. 


Women  feel  this  inequality  most  poignantly,  and 
deplore  the  low  position  taken  by  men,  as  few  men. 
can  ever  understand.  "Woman's  silence  upon  the  sub- 
ject mislead  men  into  the  idea  that  they  are  indiffer- 
ent to  man's  morals.  Men  never  hear  the  eloquent 
speeches  of  women  of  all  ages  when  this  subject  is 
discussed  in  the  homes  of  all  grades  of  women,  and 
the  despair  that  settles  over  their  faces  as  the  want 
of  pure  manhood  is  felt  by  them  with  no  hope  of 
ever  having  the  general  ideas  of  men  any  better,  and 
women  being  compelled  to  marry  such  men  if  they 
ever  marry  at  all.  While  men  are  so  ignorant  of 
the  real  aspirations  of  women  they  will  continue  to 
wrong  them. 

Men  assume  a  right  to  have  all  relationships  with 
women  outside  of  marriage  because  they  are  inen^ 
and  then  assume  the  right  to  desert  such  women  as 
beneath  their  contempt,  and  illogically  reasoning 
both  ways,  assert  that  such  women  were  not  equals 
with  them,  because  they  yielded  when  unable  either 
mentally  or  physically  or  financially  to  resist  them.. 

Every  art,  often  not  at  all  understood  by  woman, 
is  used  to  entrap  her  into  such  relationship  when  she 
does  not  fully  understand  the  strength  of  her  own 
passjpns  and  certainly  not  of  men's,  and  she  is  placed 
in  a  position  where  she  cannot  possibly  be  fore- 
warned ;  if  not  forewarned  in  a  manner  to  make  her 
disrespect  all  manhood,  in  a  word,  to  be  constantly 


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on  the  alert  believing  every  man  a  seducer.  If  he 
is  not  such,  it  is  not  for  want  of  encouragement  from 
the  great  masses  of  men  in  the  following  way :  The 
arts  and  traps  of  seduction  are  talked  over  by  men 
before  boys,  and  so  the  youths  grow  up  in  the  belief 
that  there  is  something  smart  in  taking  advantage 
of  women,  and  that  it  is  the  most  telling  evidence 
of  manhood  possible.  Brought  up  in  such  a  school 
it  is  more  a  misfortune  than  a  fault  that  men  as  a 
mass  have  so  little  moral  conscience,  for  there  is  little 
or  no  direct  influence  to  counteract  such  schooling, 
and  the  lessons  in  defective  conscience  and  low  ebb 
of  soul  are  so  often  given,  that  the  most  poisonous 
and  deleterious  stuff  becomes  a  part  of  the  man. 

It  is  true  that  perni^ous  teachings  are  graded  to 
some  extent  among  men  and  boys  in  the  different 
classes  of  society,  but  the  same  ideas  of  their  im- 
moral rights  that  men  believe  to  be  their  preroga- 
tives as  men^  tliat  all  other  men  are  called  upon  to 
respect  as  rights  and  women  to  tolerate,  are  the  bases 
of  jokes,  good-natured  slanders  and  pleasantry. 

Men  tacitly  acknowledge  each  others  right  to  their 
own  code  of  morals,  and  an  exclusive  right  to  their 
own  victims  is  asserted  with  threats,  fists  and  bullets. 
Such  decisions  of  the  rights  of  weak-moraled  men  to 
weak-minded  women  are  heralded  almost  every  day. 

The  thieves  of  woman's  self  respect  have  wide 
ranges  of  "codes  of  honor."    Such  men  call  those 


INTRODUCTION. 


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who  live  better  lives  than  themselves,  fools,  and  those 
who  live  worse  ones,  brutes,  which  is  an  insult  to  the 
brute  creation,  since  no  animal  can  be  found  that  is 
as  bad  as  some  men. 

The  masses  of  men  do  not  believe  that  one  man 
ever  lived,  except  Christ,  who  did  not  exercise  what 
he  deemed  "manhood  rights  in  degrading  some 
woman,"  and  there  are  men  who  even  doubt  Christ's 
pure  life  in  this  regard. 

There  are  many  restraining  influences  with  men, 
but  the  greatest  is  fear,  without  which  the  exercise  of 
the  basest  passions  (or  rather  the  violation  of  the  natu- 
ral laws)  would  be  so  great  that  the  race  would  soon 
become  extinct.  But  the  "fear"  is  not  concerning  the 
results  on  the  soul  or  body  of  their  victims,  but  that 
their  own  bodies  may  suffer  from  some  law  that  shall 
be  enforced  in  the  shape  of  disease,  or  of  some  human, 
law  that  is  administered  by  individuals  in  the  shape 
of  cold  lead  globes,  or  sharp  pointed  steel  if  not  in 
prison  cells,  or  in  hemp  circles. 

Where  no  common  law  prevails,  men  treat  women 
as  though  they  had  not  a  single  right  of  existence, 
and  but  for  their  living,  adding  to  men's  sexual 
gratification,  they  would  not  be  allowed  to  live  at 
all. 

Where  common  law  does  prevail,  women  are  con- 
stantly writhing  under  the  inequality  of  law  as  re- 
gards  sex,  and  men  are  so  annoyed  that  to  have  peace, 


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more  and  more  j  ust  laws  are  enacted  by  them.  Laws 
are  made  by  men  who  have  not  a  remote  idea  of  liv- 
ing up  to  them,  believing  themselves  clever  enough 
to  infringe  them  without  publicity,  and  thus  pass 
:for  much  better  men  than  they  really  are,  while  the 
selfish  making  of  protection  laws  is  for  the  double 
purpose  of  protecting  their  victims  for  their  own 
use,  whether  such  women  be  wives  or  mistresses. 

And  yet  men  have  failed  to  enact  laws  of  this 
character  that  are  sufficiently  potential  to  do  away 
with,  the  necessity  for  individual  administration  of 
bullet  or  knife  law.  A  certain  class  of  men  are  re- 
strained by  nothing  less  potent  than  this  kind  of  law, 
and  but  for  such  law  being  occasionally  administered 
by  the  relatives  of  women  or  by  the  victimized  women 
themselves,  there  would  be  much  more  of  iniquity 
than  there  is  at  present,  although  one  is  almost  led 
to  exclaim,  how  can  the  world  be  much  worse  than 
it  is  ? 

There  is  a  fearful  moral  confusion  that  certainly 
appalls  one  who  looks  upon  every  grade  of  society  as 
it  really  is. 

While  every  man  has  his  code  of  honor  in  relation 
to  women,  nearly  all  of  these  codes  can  be  summed 
up  in  the  following  list. 

1.  The  code  of  a  pure  life,  where  no  sexual  wrongs 
to  himself  or  to  a  woman  have  ever  existed,  but 
^here  every  woman  is  treated  with  the  same  deference 


INTRODUCTION. 


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a8  though  she  was  his  honored  mother  or  sister,  where 
his  wife  is  treated  with  all  the  acknowledged  rights 
as  though  she  were  physically  stronger  than  himself, 
and  perfectly  independent  of  him  in  all  regards. 

That  there  are  so  few  with  this  code,  is  why  there 
/  is  BO  much  of  contention,  strife,  rapes,  seductions 
\  and  murders.    There  can  he  none  of  these  evils  where 
men  live  up  to  the  nohle  standard  of  true  manhood. 

2.  The  code  of  "  sowing  wild  oats "  and  then 
i.  marrying  a  pure  girl  and  settling  down,  and  prid- 
Hng  himself  on  being  one  of  the  very  best  of  men, 

never  once  dreaming  that  there  can  be  any  better 
•specimens  of  manhood,  or  thinking  that  he  has  any 
obligations  to  that  pure  girl,  in  keeping  himself  pure 
for  her,  as  she  has  been  keeping  herself  for  him. 

3.  The  code  of  living  life  ISTo.  2,  being  equally  careful 
not  to  have  any  slanders  in  the  shape  of  illegitimate 
children,  and  like  No.  2,  boasting  that  they  "never 

^visited  a  public  woman,  or  seduced  a  girl.'" — But  all 
through  life  having  relationship  sexual  with  so-called 
^respectable  women,  married  and  single.  Sometimes 
men  with  this  code  marry  and  sometimes  do  not,  but 
always  living  the  same  life,  making  their  marriage  a 
convenience,  if  they  ever  do  conclude  to  marry,  and 
with  their  associates  talk  jocosely  over  the  conve- 

'^i  nience  of  having  a  wife,  when  there  are  reasons  why 
|it  is  not  policy  or  pleasure  to  go  elsewhere.  They 
use  every  art  to  keep  their  wives  in  the  belief  of  their 


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faithfulness  to  them,  and  laugh  at  the  idea  of  a  jeal- 
ous thought  in  them,  or  frown  and  hecome  angry  at 
such  a  suspicion. 

4.  The  code  of  this  class  is  to  visit  reputable  houses, 
talk  up  marriage,  court  several  different  girls,  (tak- 
ing precaution  to  have  them  in  different  places, 
or  in  different  circles  of  society,)  seduce  under  pro- 
mise of  marriage  through  force  or  fear,  help  them  out 
of  enceinte  condition,  carry  on  the  game  until  he 
wearies  of  his  victim,  or  she  finding  he  will  not  marry 
discards  him.  Those  of  this  class  boast  that  they 
are  "as  good  as  any  men"  among  their  chums.  They 
boast  of  their  conquests  and  get  rid  of  some  of  their 
victims  by  getting  some  other  fellow  to  play  the 
same  game  and  then  twit  the  girl  with  unfaithful- 
ness to  them  as  a  cause  for  desertion. 

5.  The  code  of  this  class  is  to  visit  disreputable 
houses,  make  bargains  and  sales,  and  would  despise 
seducing  girls,  or  invading  other  men's  families — 
pure  sexual  gratification  is  the  one  idea,  and  the 
quality  is  little  to  be  considered.  More  married  men 
than  single  ones  patronize  such  houses.  We  shall 
give  the  reasons  therefor  hereafter 

This  class  treat  respectful  women  with  much  more 
deference  than  the  seducers  wdio  boast  of  never  going 
to  a  bad  house. 

6.  The  code  of  this  class  is  to  be  constantly  on  the 
alert  for  victims,  and  their 'thirst  for  variety'^leads 


INTRODUCTION. 


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them  into  the  most  dishonorable  means  to  accomj)lish 
ends.  Rapes  are  committed  by  them  and  even  small 
girls  are  victims. 


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CHAPTER  11. 


Equality. 


If  men  would  only  reason,  tliey  would  very  soon 
understand  that  the  true  position  of  women  is  al- 
ways one  of  equality  with  themselves  in  all  the  rela- 
tions of  life.  This  is  true,  taken  not  only  from  the 
most  just,  humane  and  noble  standpoints,  but  from 
the  most  interested  and  selfish  ones,  for  not  only  are 
the  children  stronger,  healthier,  more  intellectual  and 
less  irritable,  having  a  stronger  hold  on  life,  but  from 
the  merest  sensual  motives,  this  is  true:  where  the 
wife  is  simj^ly  a  grown  up  governed  child,  always 
more  or  less  under  the  dominant  will  of  the  husband, 
!:she  can  never  give  the  strength  and  satisfaction  to 
the  husband  in  the  sexual  relation  that  she  would  if 
^n  individualized  woman,  with  all  the  distinct  mag- 
ifietic  power  that  only  such  women  can  impart. 

The  more  of  selfhood  a  woman  possesses,  the 
greater  the  ability  to  concentrate  all  of  nerve  power 
in  the  relation  which  she  willingly  engages  in 
for  reproduction  in  a  pure  monogamic  love  that  is 
not  robbed  of  the  fineness  of  the  relation  by  the 
degredation  of  partial  or  complete  compulsion. 
While  such  a  relation  is  not  love^  there  must  be  love 
with  it,  or  it  is  an  injury  to  both  parties  in  the  trans- 


EQUALITY. 


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action  ;  with  love  and  respect  there  comes  a  peaceful 
satisfied  condition  of  both  body  and  mind.  Excess, 
however,  brings  irritability  and  unrest.    This  would 

Xbe  avoided  by  sleeping  separately.  Much  of  the  dis- 
gust that  at  times  is  so  unbearable  would  be  avoided 
if  the  matters  of  making  and  un-making  toilets  were 
done  in  separate  rooms.  Few  people  are  so  bound 
too;ether  in  soul  that  there  is  not  an  ill-concealed 
disgust  for  private  toilet  matters,  and  even  the  ordi- 
nary arrangement  of  the  clothes. 

However  pleased  with  the  person  when  clothed, 
the  dressing  and  undressing  transition,  after  a  little 
time,  becomes  an  endured  unpleasantness. 

^  Several  cases  have  come  to  our  knowledge  where 
women  could  not  void  fluids  when  their  husbands 
were  in  the  room,  no  matter  how  dark  the  night  or 
how  long  they  had  been  married.  Women  have 
suffered  much,  and  made  an  effort  to  do  so  for  an 
hour  at  a  time,  and  although  in  severe  pain  because 
of  the  necessity,  it  was  impossible  to  be  relieved  until 


u  Men  have  had  to  partially  dress  and  stand  outside 
of  their  own  rooms  in  hotels,  before  their  wives  were 
1*^  able  to  get  relief. 

Children  are  often  severely  punished  for  not  attend- 
ing to  the  calls  of  nature  before  retiring,  and  invariably 
doing  so  as  soon  as  put  to  bed  and  left  alone.    If  they 


were  entirely  alone. 


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were  tied  in  their  toilet  chairs  and  left  alone  for  a 
few  minutes  the  result  would  be  accomplished. 

This  is  a  peculiar  condition  of  the  system  that 
few  grown  people  understand.  They  can  under* 
stand  their  failure  to  respond  to  the  calls  of  nature, 
when  they  enter  a  closet  that  is  so  disgusting  that 
the  inclination  of  nature  immediately  leaves  them. 

Fistulas  often  result  where  a  person  so  disgusted  is 
placed  where  there  is  no  alternative  but  to  visit  such 
a  closet.  Every  house  however  small  in  towns  and 
cities  ought  to  have  closet  plumbing  where  water 
flows  abundantly,  so  that  the  calls  of  nature  would 
not  be  so  dreaded  and  postponed. 

It  is  found  that  constipated  bowels  caused  by  post- 
/  ponement  of  the  calls  of  nature  so  irritates  the  organs. 


I.  of  sex,  that  much  of  immorality  is  the  result.  There 
must  be  an  equality  of  rights  of  the  organs  of  the 
human  system.  If  one  is  free  to  eat  and  drink,  there 
must  also  be  freedom  to  evacuate  the  solids  and  fluids 
in  order  to  have  peace  in  the  system. 

All  should  know  the  evils  of  exciting  influences 
on  the  organs  of  reproduction,  and  both  boys  and 
girls  should  be  equal  in  such  knowledge. 

Men  as  Avell  as  women  sufter  from  inequality  of 
knowledge  as  well  as  of  rights  and  privileges  in  the 
various  relations  of  life.  Men  who  deny  any  rights 
to  women  on  account  of  their  superior  physical 
strength,  sooner  or  later  have  their  own  rights  as 


EQUALITY. 


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men  interfered  with,  because  the  sentiment  of  ty- 
ranny is  ever  encroaching  more  and  more;  it  is  not 
safe  to  deny  any  one  rights  that  belong  to  alL 

In  the  middle  ages  men  were  mutilated  (castrated) 
so  that  they  could  sing  like  women  in  their  choirs. 
They  would  not  admit  the  women  in  the  choirs  at 
:all,  and  the  great  injustice  to  women  was  visited 
upon  the  sons  of  men,  because  they  must  have  the 
voices  of  women  and  could  not  get  them  without  muti- 
lating men  when  they  would  not  acknowledge 
woman's  ris-ht  to  sins;. 

Mutilated  men  are  devoid  of  fine  sensibilities,  and 
are  harsh  and  unfeeling  and  even  cruel. 

These  cruel  men  were,  and  are  to  this  day,  the 
guardians  of  the  women  of  the  Harems.  They  ac- 
company them  whenever  they  are  allowed  to  go  out, 
and  hold  them  under  constant  surveillance.  AYomen 
herded  in  this  way  bear  children  that  are  tyrants 
from  birth,  being  marked  by  those  who  tyrannized 
over  them.  Their  failure  to  make  advances  in  civi- 
lization, is  owino;  to  the  manner  in  whicli  the  women 
are  treated.  But  a  few  years  will  elapse  before  the 
men  of  this  country  will  be  able  to  see  themselves 
reflected  in  the  glass  of  as  gross  inconsistency  as  the 
men  to  whom  we  refer.  Men  may  laugh  at  the  idea 
of  women  singing  in  public,  or  even  uncovering 
their  faces  being  ^'out  of  woman's  sphere,  and  out 
of  the  delicate  proprieties  of  life,  and  making  women 


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unlit  to  be  wives  or  even  good  enough  to  be  called 
women^^^  but  let  men  remember,  that  it  is  only  a  piece 
of  the  same  barbarism  that  allows  men  to  be  the 
dictators  of  women  in  anything  that  relates  to  exis- 
tence. 

Nothing  less  than  perfect  equality  of  rights  will 
ever  result  in  the  greatest  happiness,  and  the  grandest 
possibilities. 

Enlightened  women  look  upon  any  interference 
with  human  rights  of  women,  whether  as  regards  a 
failure  to  pass  a  law  to  protect  woman  in  her  clearly 
expressed  right  of  suffrage  in  the  Constitution,  or 
any  human  rights,  as  being  as  great  a  barbaric  w^ng, 
as  men  can  possibly  deem  the  mutilation  wrongs  of 
men.  They  diifer  only  in  degree  but  not  in  kind^ 
for  both  stab  in  the  same  direction.  Both  seek  to 
be  the  masters  of  the  special  functions  of  sex. 

A  marked  instance  of  oppression  to  women,  result- 
in«:  in  cruelty  to  boys  is  apparent  in  the  Turkish 
;  Harem,  where  boys  from  10  to  15  years  of  age  are 
kept  in  large  numbers  for  licentious  acts  in  the  rec- 
tum, which  results  in  agonized  death  from  inflamma- 
tion. 

Enlightened  countries  are  becoming  more  just  tO' 
women,  but  still  we  are  shocked  with  facts  like  the 
following  that  v/ill  soon  be  obsolete  in  England,  as 
they  are  already  in  America,  owing  to  the  advance 
of  public  sentiment  beyond  the  codes  : 


EQUALITY. 


15^ 


]^ot  many  years  since  an  English  court  decided^ 
that  a  man  might  beat  his  wife  with  a  stick  not 
larger  than  his  little  finger,  continuing  to  legalize 
this  relic  of  barbarism. 

If  a  woman  was  untrue  to  her  husband  in  Athens ^ 
he  could  take  away  all  her  property,  beat  her,  and 
sell  her  at  auction,  but  he  could  do  what  he  pleased.' 

Mohammed  ordained  that  untrue  wives  should  be 
buried  alive,  but  afterwards  decided  that  they  should; 
be  stoned  to  death. 

In  Egypt  an  untrue  wife's  nose  was  cut  off,  while- 
in  Germany  her  hair  was  cut  short. 

In  the  Polynesian  Islands  the  wives  are  not  allowed- 
to  eat  the  same  food  as  the  husbands,  or  cook  it  at 
the  same  fire. 

In  China,  the  women  have  so  many  disadvantages^^ 
that  they  are  constantly  praying  that  in  the  next 
world  they  may  be  men.  Husband  and  wife  may 
mutually  agree  to  separate,  but  if  the  wife  leaves 
without  his  consent,  he  may  strangle  her.  Talka- 
tiveness, or  a  disregard  of  parents  in  law,  are  causes 
for  a  man's  divorce. 

All  of  these  inequalities  of  sex  have  their  penal- 
ties. But  we  have  neither  time  or  space  to  elabo- 
rate truths  that  need  but  a  mention.  It  is  because 
of  the  inequality  of  rights  of  sex,  that  so  much  of 
outrage  is  perpetrated  by  men  of  all  ages.  Eapes  on 
\little  girls  of  but  two  or  three  years  of  age,  are  at- 


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tempted  by  young  men  often  giving  them  venereal 
disease.  Boys  from  a  dozen  to  eighteen  years  of  age, 
..are  often  fomid  attempting  to  outrage  little  girls,  and 
\as  boys  commence  so  young  to  pursue  the  vices  so 
well  understood  by  the  constant  talk  before  them  of 
men  hardened  in  crime,  no  boy  is  too  young  to  read 
this  book,  and  his  special  attention  should  be  called 
to  the  chapters  on  Pure  Manhood,  and  the  Language 
of  the  ITerves.  Small  boys  should  learn  that  vice  so  de- 
grades the  boy  that  the  man  is  capable  of  outrages 
far  worse  than  murders,  and  that  by  ''slow  degrees 
the  tempter  wins  ;  then  step  by  step  they  give  up 
all,"  and  become  perfect  demons  ;  and  as  an  illustra- 
tion the  following  is  related : 

In  the  war  with  the  Larmates,  Emperor  Proclus, 
in  fifteen  days,  violated  one  hundred  virgins  who 
^   were  his  captives. 

American  men  will  violate  their  wives  while  men- 
struating, which  even  an  American  Indian  is  never 
\  guilty  of  doing.    Perfect  equality  of  men  and  wo- 
^  men  in  all  the  relations  of  life  would  produce  the 
best  results  to  men  as  well  as  women. 


PURE  MANHOOD. 


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CHAPTER  III. 
Pure  Manhood. 

We  have  searclied  books  in  vain  for  any  descrip- 
tion of  a  pure  man.  We  expected  that  in  works  de- 
voted exclusively  to  men,  where  the  virginity  of  wo- 
man is  so  freely  discussed,  that  the  virgin  man  would 
have  a  descriptive  mention,  but  in  such  books  as 
in  all  others,  we  have  failed  to  find  any  mention  of 
the  physical  signs  of  manhood  virginity.  Such  a 
neglect  in  works  advocating  either  pure  marriage  or 
continence ,  is,  to  say  the  least,  most  remarkable.  But 
a  scientific  and  metaphysical  writer  cannot  let  the  sub- 
ject rest  until  investigation  proves  whether  or  not 
woman  alone  has  signs  of  a  virgin  condition,  whether 
Xsuch  signs  are  not  equally  marked  in  man.  It  would 
not  need  much  thought  to  conclude  that  any  portion 
of  the  body  put  to  new  use  would  be  likely  to  be 
changed  in  some  measure,  and  particularly  a  portion 
of  such  importance  as  the  procreating  organs. 

The  signs  of  virginity  in  woman  is  a  topic  that  all 
writers  on  private  treatises,  whether  to  men  or  wo- 
men, always  speak  of  and  make  a  tlxeme  of  the 
greatest  importance  in  proving  the  chastity  of  women, 
as  though  man  had  any  more  right  to  expect  to  find 
a  perfectly  chaste  wife,  than  woman  had  to  find 
2 


18 


UNMASKED. 


a  chaste  husband,  and  not  until  withhi  a  few  years 
has  the  world  been  very  well  enlightened  upon  the- 
subject,  and  learned  that  even  in  some  marriages^ 
there  has  been  only  external  copulation  yet  concep- 
tion has  taken  place  and  a  hymen  as  perfect  as  is 
ever  found,  seen  by  the  attending  obstetrician. 

On  the  other  hand,  after  marriage  when  perfect 
copulation  has  occurred  many  times,  the  entrance  of 
the  vagina  has  contracted  so  rigidly  when  the  act 
was  repeated,  that  more  effort  was  required  to  com- 
plete copnlation  than  at  the  first  act  after  marriage^ 
These  facts  learned  from  the  most  reliable  persons,, 
prove  that  the  copnlation  signs  of  chastity  in  woman 
are  not  to  be  relied  upon,  and  by  so  much  stress  having 
been  placednpon  such  signs,  much  of  wretchedness  has 
resulted  to  men  for  want  of  confidence  in  their  wives' 
chastity,  that  has  been  cruelly  thurst  into  the  wives' 
faces,  who  were  powerless  to  explain  the  difference 
between  a  delicate  little  membrane  at  the  entrance  of 
the  vagina  called  the  hymen,  that  has  been  forced  to 
yield  so  soon  after  marriage,  that  the  relaxing  mois- 
ture of  the  parts  has  not  prepared  it  to  yield  without 
great  effort  and  pain.  In  after  conditions  where 
'the  system  of  woman  has  received  all  of  that  kind 
of  excitement  that  it  can  bear,  the  muscles  of  the 
vagina  contract  and  refuse  to  receive  more,  although 
the  woman  may  still  desire  to  gratify  her  husband 
even  if  not  at  the  time  congenial  to  her.  Most 


PURE  MANHOOD.  19 
X  / 

married  men  have  had  the  hymen  theory  very  much 
muddled  by  this  after  condition,  at  all  periods  in  the 
\lives  of  married  women. 

But  very  few  men  ever  stoj)  to  consider  their  own 
inconsistency  in  demanding  such  purity  from  their 
wives,  since,  if  they  were  themselves  pure,  they 
could  not  so  readily  doubt  the  chastity  of  women. 
It  is  strange  that  men  can  be  so  thoughtless  as  not 
to  know  that  their  own  want  of  conscience  in  the 
maidenly  purity  of  their  wives,  and  their  ability  to 
judge  of  the  same,  would  lead  their  wives  to  distrust 
them  in  their  own  youthful  purity,  for  how  can  a 
/young  man  judge  of  a  wije's  condition  if  he  is  not 
I  able  to  draw  comparisons  with  a  mistress. 

Had  not  women  studied  the  medical  profession, 
and  studied  into  this  one-sided  virtue  business,  the 
world  might  still  have  gone  on  without  women  ever 
knowing  that  the  signs  of  man's  virtue  ixre  un  mistak- 
able, although  there  are  but  few  comparatively  who 
are  virtuous  long  enough  to  know  themselves  what 
are  the  sure  signs  of  a  virtuous  man.  We  doubt  not 
that  by  far  the  greater  part  of  men  in  middle  life  and 
old  age,  believe  that  there  are  no  signs  of  virtue  in 
men,  but  that  what  is  a  sign,  is  undeveloped  manhood, 
since  they  have  not  thought  upon  the  subject  enough 
to  consider  the  time  and  cause  of  the  physical  change 
in  the  penis.  Men  make  their  wives  believe  ''the 
power  to  make  an  erection  and  leave  the  franum 


^0 


UNMASKED. 


praeputii  of  the  penis  all  next  to  the  scrotum,  is 
simply  an  omen  of  perfect  manhood  that  is  develop- 
ed with  time,  and  gradually  grows  away  from  its 
attachments.  This  is  all  false,  but  is  a  story  gener- 
ally told  wives  who  are  always  contrasting  the  dif- 
ference in  the  attachments  of  the  cuticle  on  infants 
and  the  freedom  from  attachment  of  the  same  on 
their  husbands,  and  hence  the  very  natural  question 
as  to  the  time  when,  the  change  takes  place. 

So  firm  and  unyielding  is  the  attachment,  and  so 
painful  any  attempt  to  free  the  same  from  near  the 
head  of  the  penis,  that  only  under  the  greatest  ex- 
citement, a  number  of  times,  will  it  tear  away,  and 
every  time  there  will  be  some,  more  or  less  slight, 
blood  discharged  from  the  torn  membranes. 

Masturbation  will  not  tear  this  away  ;  sexual  relations 
alone  loill  do  so,  and  when  this  unmistakable  sign  of 
man's  virginity  is  generally  understood,  boys  will, 
with  proper  training,  make  men  that  will  honor 
manhood. 

Youno;  women  who  were  not  chaste  have  not  dared 
to  marry  doctors,  and  the  time  has  arrived  when 
young  men  who  are  not  chaste  do  not  dare  to  marry 
doctors,  for  the  same  reasons  that  young  women  have 
had,  and  continue  to  have,  and  the  time  is  not  dis- 
tant when  young  men  will  not  dare  to  marry  pure 
w^omen  anywhere,  however  young,  for  women  will 
be  informed  upon  this  subject. 


PURE  MANHOOD. 


21 


A  number  of  men  living  to  be  30  years  old  and; 
over,  have  married  with  unmistakable  signs  of  hav- 
ing lived  a  perfectly  pure  life,  and  the  harshness  upon 
wedding  nights  that  unchaste  men  have  been  guilty 
of,  was  impossible  with  them,  because  of  the  effects- 
on  their  virginity  not  only,  but  that  selfish  reckless 
disregard  of  a  wife,  that  unchaste  men  evince  in  the^ 
sexual  relation  is  not  known,  but  a  tender  regard  is-- 
ever  observable.  ^ 
Where  husband  and  wife  are  both  virgins, 


sexual  relations  on  both  sides  will  be  moderate  and  : 
mutual,  and  satisfactory,  and  soothing,  for  husband 
will  not  seek  to  gratify  unreasonable  desire,  because^ 
he  will  not  have  such  a  desire.    It  will  be  weeks  and 
perhaps  months  before  the  fullness  of  the  relation  is 
experienced  by  either,  just  as  it  is  always  some  time 
I  before  the  fullness  is  reached  byj3ure  woman  without 
I  regard  to  whom  she  has  married.  w.«««^^ 
\    Chaste  women  who  marry  unchaste  men,  are  often/ 
^-  three  months  in  reaching  and  sometimes  never  reachX 
a  perfection  of  orgasm  in  sexual  relation,  owing  / 
to  the  fact  of  the  husband  having  lost  magnetic 
power  by  his  unchastity,  and  thus  unfitting  himself 
to  become  a  father  for  her  children,  by  being  unable 
to  father  the  highest  type  of  humanity  that  shall  be- 
superior  to  both  parents  which  should  result. 

The  loss  of  virginity  in  men,  and  the  failure  ta 


22 


UNMASKED. 


live  chaste  lives  is  more  a  misfortune  than  a  fault, 
as  is  often  the  case  with  women. 

Men  are,  when  mere  boys,  allowed  to  go  into  all 
sorts  of  chance  company  with  little  or  no  regard  as 
to  the  moral  character  of  the  same,  with  no  warnings 
as  to  results  on  soul,  and  seldom  a  w^ord  about  the 
results  on  the  body.  Parents,  mothers  as  well  as 
fathers,  think  because  the  public  places  so  low  an 
estimate  upon  the  morals  of  men,  that  they  have  few 
if  any  responsibilities  regarding  the  morals  of  their 
sons.  They  cannot  bear  babies  and  bring  disgrace 
upon  them,  and  they  have  little  or  no  organized 
thought  about  sons  bringing  disgrace  into  other  peo- 
ple's families.  Few  people  look  away  beyond  dis- 
grace, that  is  but  the  opinion  of  other  people ;  they 
do  not  get  a  sight  of  the  wrongs  to  their  bodies  that 
are  not  immediately  perceptible.  The  masses  of 
men  reason  but  little  on  the  most  important  subjects 
relating  to  social  life.  They  are  contented  to  know 
the  arts  relating  to  the  attainment  of  passional  aims, 
and  the  ordinary  preventives  of  deleterious  results ; 
but  they  do  not  even  learn  the  plain  lessons  taught 
constantly :  what  will  spoil  the  horse  will  spoil  the 
man.  The  variety  and  excess  of  the  horse  causes 
him  to  be  excited  beyond  control  at  the  sight  of  a 
mare,  no  matter  of  how  inferior  breed  and  how  poor 
condition  she  may  be  in  at  the  time.  And  so  men 
lose  by  variety  the  nice  sense  of  selection,  and  the 


PURE  MANHOOD. 


23 


power  of  control,  and  take  any  women  they  can  that  j 
chances  to  be  near,  for  like  the  horse,  licentious' 
thoughts  are  ever  uppermost  in  their  minds,  and  they 
conclude  that  there  is  not  a  woman  in  the  world  but 
that  would  pursue  the  same  course  as  himself  with 
her  price  paid.  There  are  large  numbers  of  men 
who  cannot  be  made  to  believe  that  there  is  a  single 
man  or  woman  who  live  pure  lives,  because  their  own 
lives  and  their  observations  of  others  have  led  them 
!  to  such  a  conclusion.  One  of  the  most  common  ex- 
pressions  from  men  when  the  subject  ot  pure  man- 
hood is  alluded  to,  is  this :  "Men  are  all  about  alike, 
some  are  more  shrewd  than  others." 

No  man  can  ever  tell  how  chilling  such  expressions 
and  those  of  similar  import  are  to  pure  women,  who 
^vould  love  with  a  worshipful  devotion  the  embodi- 
l^ment  of  pure  manhood.  But  men  cannot  understand 
such  chilling  of  the  soul,  until  the  best  women  make 
similar  assertions  about  all  other  women — imagine 
such  a  condition  ye  good  men,  and  see  if,  no  matter 
what  troubles  you  have  braved  like  philosphers,  see 
if,  we  repeat,  you  do  not  require  all  your  brains  to 
resist  suicidal  inclinations.  iNTothing  else  in  life 
comes  home  to  the  soul  with  such  crushing  Aveight 
as  the  loss  of  confidence  in  sexual  purit}'.  Life 
seems  to  be  robbed  of  the  charm  of  all  charms  when 
the  permanent  friendship  of  uncompromising  confi- 
dence has  been  destroj'ed.    Only  the  skeleton  of  the 


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UNMASKED. 


individual  is  left.    What  was  thought  to  be  genuine 
substance  proves  to  be  but  a  fleeting  shadow  in 
sunshine,  tiiat  is  lost  all  together  in  twilight  and 
darkness.    For  with  a  disregard  of  pure  selfhood, 
saved  and  retained  for  the  partner  of  life,  there  is 
loss  of  so  much  of  fineness  of  soul  and  body,  power 
of  soul  and  body  grandness,  that  it  would  take 
volumes  to  write  out  all  the  same  in  a  complete 
»  manner.    The  horse  cannot  have  sexual  relations 
I  with  a  cross  balky  mare,  a  big-legged  mare,  one  of 
1  inferior  size,  inferior  breed,  or  of  any  description 
I  and  ever  recover  from  the  magnetic  eflfect.    The  parts 
having  contact  may  be  immediately  washed  after 
the  relation,  but  there  is  no  power  to  take  from  him 
Nthe  mare's  impress  left  upon  him  that  will  be  trans- 
mitted sooner  or  later  to  his  posterity.    So  marked 
is  this  that  some  of  the  colts  from  the  best  breed  of 
mares,  sired  by  the  best  breed  of  horses,  have  par- 
taken of  the  dispositions  and  looks  of  mares  that 
held  sexual  relations  with  the  horse  months  and 
even  years  before.    The  male  takes  upon  himself 
these  magnetisms  to  a  wonderful  extent,  indeed  they 
become  as  much  a  part  of  him  as  are  his  feet  or  any 
other  part.    So  is  it  with  men,  and  they  take  up 
these  magnetisms  and  retain  them  in  their  systems, 
;  and  transmit  them  to  posterity.   Men  may  discard  the 
women  with  whom  they  have  had  sexual  relations 
but  they  will  find,  no  matter  how  low  or  degraded 


PURE  MANHOOD. 


25 


they  may  have  been  that  their  children  will  inherit^  ^ 
the  traits  and  often  the  looks  of  their  mistresses. 

This  is  a  law  that  cannot  be  avoided  but  does  not 
stop  here.  Like  all  other  great  laws,  there  are  many 
deleterious  effects  that  loom  up  in  importance  as  we 
follow  the  various  winding  paths  outside  of  the 
clearly  defined  one  of  rectitude. 

The  worst  effects  as  regards  such  transmission 
comes  upon  men^  because  the  life  and  power  of  the 
spermatozoa  is  magnetic  in  its  unconscious  life  and 
power,  and  receives  from  the  man  the  wonderful  but 
as  yet  but  partially  understood  impress  upon  the 
nerve  centers,  that  time  can  never  eradicate,  and 
when  this  subject  is  fully  understood  by  boys,  they 
will  cut  off  their  right  hands  before  they  will  thus 
wrong  their  own  soul's  tabernacle,  and  destroy  the 
power  to  give  to  their  posterity  the  sublime  traits  of 
their  pure  wives. 

Prostitution  will  never  be  stopped  until  men  are 
educated  on  these  points,  and  it  is  because  we  so 
fully  realize  this  that  we  have  done  what  no  other 
woman  has  dared  to  do,  lectured  and  written  to  men 
vexclusively  on  these  important  subjects. 

But  we  have  not  yet  reached  the  depths  of  the 
injury  that  promiscuous  relationship  brings.  As 
soon  as  conception  takes  place,  the  blood  of  the 
spermatozoa  begins  to  circulate  in  the  veins  of  the- 
wife,  and  the  magnetic  power  of  the  spermatozoa 


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UNMASKED. 


also  diffuses  itself  into  the  magnetism  of  the  wife. 
The  circulation  of  both  increases  in  strength  and 
quantity  the  whole  nine  months  and  so  the  very  ele- 

(ments  of  the  unchaste,  that  the  husband  has  gathered 
-up  in  his  former  relationship  with  those  unfortunate 
women,  is  circulating  in  the  bones  and  muscles  and 
nerves  of  his  wife,  through  the  arteries,  veins  and 
nerves,  and  she  can  never  eradicate  it  from  her  sys- 
tem, ^oi  only  will  the  children  inherit  more  or  less 
of  all  these  traits,  but  in  thousands  of  instances 
Niave  the  once  pure  wives  had  so  much  of  the  prosti- 
tute elements,  or  thieving  elements  or  drunken  ele- 
ments pervading  their  system  from  the  husband  in- 
heritance, that  they  have  eventually  been  overpow- 
ered by  them,  and  the  good  originally  in  such  wives 
has  lost  the  controlling  power  in  their  whole  or- 
ganization. 

That  these  effects  on  different  people  are  varied 
according  to  the  laws  of  the  modification  of  laws,  as 
yet  but  very  imperfectly  understood  must  be  acceded 
to  by  all  reasoners.  Close  observation  tells  us  that 
these  mysterious  laws  can  be  delved  into  still  deeper 
than  human  eye  has  yet  peered,  and  that  from  a 
knowledge  of  what  is  now  already  clear,  we  may  yet 
solve  unthought  of  problems  called  ''unknowables." 

There  are  those  who  can  never  be  convinced  of  in- 
tricate facts  unless  the  most  striking  evidences  are 
\  witnessed,  like  a  blonde  woman  whose  blonde  husband 


PUKE  MANHOOD. 


27 


Las  had  sexual  relations  with  a  squaw  or  an  African,^ 
becoming  the  mother  of  a  genuine  papoose,  or  a  pure 
African  child. 

The  law  of  modification  often  steps  in  and  gives 
a  specimen  of  a  child  where  only  the  negro  texture 
shows  itself  in  the  rigid  curls  of  the  flaxen  hair,  or 
of  a  complexion  and  hair  that  is  midway  in  color. 

The  peculiar  traits  of  character,  disposition  and 
predisposition  are  often  more  marked  than  the  looks 
of  the  face,  and  not  unfrequently  the  Avant  of  tenure 
of  life  is  a  telltale  of  no  small  moment,  and  the  only 
easily  discovered  evidence  of  outraged  law. 

There  is  another  depth  regarding  the  influence  of 
the  magnetism  of  presence^  that  is  still  more  ditflcult 
of  explanation  than  even  the  mysterious  contagious 
elements  of  disease,  as  seen  in  fevers,  small  pox,  or 
epizootic,  that  could  not  have  originated  from  any 
process  of  fear  in  the  minds  of  horses,  unless  they 
have  reasoning  powers  that  they  are  supposed  to  be 
deficient  in,  or  unless  there  is  a  power  of  mind  in 
the  human  that  so  infused  the  animal  hundreds  of 
miles  awa}^,  that  the  eftects  were  the  same  as  though 
there  had  actually  been  exposure  to  the  disease. 

We  often  feel  most  miserable  in  the  presence  of 
some  people  without  any  seeming  reason,  and  feel 
happy  in  the  presence  of  others,  experiencing  an  in- 
describable something  in  regard  to  such  presence, 
that  we  know  not  how  to  commence  to  investio^ate. 


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UNMASKED. 


We  feel  it  beyond  our  mental  depth  to  reason  it  out^ 
and  like  the  mystery  of  mysteries  that  we  every  day 
behold  in  nature,  we  yield  the  point  and  plod  along 
with  a  reluctant  dismissal  of  the  whole  subject  from 
our  minds  for  the  time,  as  the  too  barren  results  of 
such  thoughts  weary  us,  without  convincing  us  that 
their  solving  is  an  utter  impossibility.  The  deeper- 
one  delves  into  metaphysics  the  wider  the  field  seems 
to  expand. 

Dr.  Franklin  touched  the  keynote  of  electricity 
for  the  business  world ;  but  who  shall  be  able  to  so 
trace  humanities'  magnetic  power,  and  so  touch  its 
key,  that  the  masses  shall  heed  its  moral  warnings  ? 

The  world  must  be  made  better  by  understanding 
the  intricate  laws  of  human  development  in  body 
and  in  mind.  For  the  masses  to  comprehend  th& 
physical  effects  of  unchastity,  outside  of  the  produc- 
tion of  illegitimate  children  or  of  venereal  diseases, 
but  little  reading  is  necessary  if  plain  language  is 
used.  But  the  wonderful  effect  upon  the  7nind  re- 
quires such  deep  methodical  thought,  that  but  few 
minds  are  accustomed  to  habits  of  clear  arrangement 
of  their  thoughts  so  that  they  could  express  them- 
selves intelligently  on  subjects  that  must  reach  the 
deepest  convolutions  of  the  brain. 

As  the  sexual  relation  calls  for  the  most  intense 
nerve  excitement,  and  the  strongest  and  most  power- 
ful and  concentrated  emotions,  so  does  it  as  surely 


PURE  MANHOOD. 


<3all  forth  and  receive  the  brain  impressions,  that  in 
spite  of  all  other  considerations,  are  lasting  and 
transmissable.  And  those  who  associate  in  the  sex- 
/  ual  relation  with  the  low,  the  ignorant,  the  vile,  the  '\ 
l£ckle,the  mimethodical  in  thought,  the  undeveloped 
in  mind,  cannot  avert  the  law  of  effects  upon  them- 
selves that  they  are  powerless  to  throw  off. 

Man}^  a  man  of  brilliant  talents  and  fine  cultured 
has  become  a  mere  cypher  in  the  world  from  this  )  ' 
<3ause.    Many  that  have  attained  intellectual  emi- 
nence have  failed  to  become  the  bright  stars  they  might 
have  been,  but  for  this  cause.  ^ 

It  is  lamentable  that  the  incentives  to  pure  man- 
hood are  so  few.    Those  who  are  the  honorable  ex- 
ceptions in  society  with  all  kinds  of  codes  of  honor, 
are  not  the  favored  men  of  the  time,  because  they  are  ' 
so  rare  that  women  do  not  know  how  to  treat  them.i*' 
And  so  they  look  about  them  and  see  the  worst  rakes  ^  . 
present  the  favorite  beau  of  the  evening  with  the  ' 
purest  Avomen  of  all  ages. 

Such  is  the  demeanor  of  a  pure  man  that  the  women 
are  not  aware  of  his  purity,  only  in  exceptional 
instances.  The  purest  of  women  with  their  general 
association  with  men  not  morally  sound,  do  not  ap- 
pear the  same  women  used  to,  when  there  was  less 
corruption  among  men.  Men  themselves  do  not  ap- 
pear the  same,  if  we  can  credit  those  who  lived  a 
half  a  century  since  as  young  men  and  maidens. 


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But  let  US  hope  that  we  shall  see  no  deeper  degrada- 
tion of  sex,  but  that  with  knowledge  shall  come  rapid 
strides  towards  a  pure  manhood,  with  those  who 
have  ignorantly  degraded  themselves,  and  that  know- 
ledge shall  be  so  diffused  that  the  young  men  shall 
all  grow  up  as  pure  as  they  could  wish  the  young: 
women  to  be  that  they  shall  sometime  marry. 


HERMAPHRODITES. 


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CHAPTER  lY. 

Hermaphrodites- 
Perfect  hermaphrodites  are  very  rare,  although  all 
cases  of  partial  defective  organs  of  sex  are  generally 
spoken  of  as  hermaphrodites.  Cases  are  related  where 
persons  after  having  been  married  as  men  for  several  \ 
years,were  afterwards  married  as  women,  and  in  both; 
relations  there  was  mutual  satisfaction,  with  the  ex-, 
ception  of  there  being  no  posterity.    What  were  the' 
antenatal  conditions  of  these  cases,  no  one  is  able 
to  relate,  as  far  as  we  are  informed. 

They  are  always  licentious,  owing  to  an  inheritance  ' 
of  the  same  irritability  of  the  organs  of  sex,  and  to 
defective  moral  sentiments  that  were  antenatal  con- 
ditions.   They  never  menstruate  unless  they  have  a.^ 
penis,  and  then  the  menstrual  fluid  is  never  passed,] 
except  when  they  urinate. 

The  parents  of  children  born  with  defective  or- 
gans of  sex  have  always  felt  that  they  were  dis- 
graced, and  in  some  way  at  fault  for  such  an  occur- 
rance  although  they  generally  have  no  definite  idea 
of  the  direct  cause. 

It  has  been  our  fortune  to  have  complete  histories 
of  such  cases  from  our  own  observations,  and  it  needs- 
but  little  evolution  of  thought  to  establish  principles 
that  are  axioms  with  such  keys. 


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UNMASKED. 


Hermaphrodites  are  but  legitimate  results  of  abuse 
of  either  or  both  soul  and  body.  No  woman's  body 
can  be  abused  without  a  suffering  of  soul,  and  vice 
versa. 

We  relate  cases  to  prove  our  position  in  instances 
so  marked,  that  the  least  logical  cannot  fail  to  be 
convinced  of  the  correctness  of  our  position. 

Mr.   ,  married  a  fine,  healthy  and  beautiful 

girl  of  eighteen  years  of  age,when  he  was  about  twenty- 
two.  He  had  been  living  in  a  promiscuous  manner 
since  he  was  fifteen  years  of  age,  with  no  restraints  upon 
his  animal  nature,  daily  cultivating  the  same  until  he 
lost  the  power  of  self-restraint.  He  had  no  respect  for 
womanhood  and  no  regard,  only  so  far  as  he  could 
be  sexually  gratified,  and  the  remonstrance  of  his 
wife  when  menstruating,  the  disgust  at  the  time,  and 
the  terrible  debility  and  irritability  after,  had  no  ef- 
fect upon  him  but  to  complain  of  her  want  of  dis- 
position to  please  him.  {She  of  course  had  no  busi- 
ness to  have  any  thought  about  herself.)  Herself  and 
orphan  sister  of  sixteen  years  were  sole  occupants  of 
his  house. 

Every  night  he  had  sexual  relations  with  his  wife 
three  or  four  times,  except  when  she  was  menstrua- 
ting, and  then  he,  a  little  time  after  marriage,  made 
his  wife's  menstrual  period  an  excuse  to  force  the 
sister  into  such  relationship.  He  was  so  brutal  and 
tyrannical,  and  such  were  his  threats  of  vengeance  if 


HERMAPHRODITES. 


33 


tliey  either  left  the  house  or  exposed  him,  that  the 
matter  was  kept  quiet.  His  wife  bore  him  one  child, 
a  dauo-hter,  and  both  wife  and  sister  died  soon  after 
with  consumption,  caused  by  venereal  disease  that 
he  had  given  them. 

The  child  is  now  about  eight  years  of  age,  feeble  and 
timid  but  utterly  devoid  of  any  vagina. 

1^0  doubt  but  that  mother's  mind  was  so  firmly 
fixed  on  her  child,  (if  a  girl,)  being  protected  from 
man's  abuse,  that  her  mental  influence  caused  the 
physical  defect  in  her  daughter. 

A  young  woman  of  twenty-five  in  this  same  con- 
(  dition,  married  a  man  in  Washington,  J).  C,  and 
when  the  discovery  was  made  by  her  husband,  a  di- 
vorce was  the  finale,  although  she  begged  and  pleaded 
\for  t\ie friendship  of  marriage -Midi  consented  to  allow 
him  any  immoral  liberties  he  might  desire  with 
others. 

Two  families  of  young  couples  in  ^N'ew  York,  were 
living  near  neighbors.  Each  had  one  child.  Their 
intimacy  resulted  in  one  of  the  men  taking  the  other 
man's  wife  and  eloping  with  her. 

After  a  few  months  they  returned  and  the  aftairs 
were  so  settled  that  one  couple  again  lived  in  their 
married  relations.  The  deserted  wife  became  enceinte 
soon  after  and  as  soon  as  she  was  sure  of  her  situa- 
tion she  applied  to  her  physician  for  medicine  to  de- 
stroy the  foetus.  When  we  told  her  that  we  could 
3 


34 


UN3IASKED. 


not  give  her  anything,  she  remarked  with  a  great 
deal  of  anger,  that  as  her  luisband  had  once  deserted 
her,  she  hoped  that  if  her  child  was  a  girJ  that  "it 
would  never  be  able  to  have  a  husband's  relation,  and 
if  a  boy  that  it  w^ould  never  be  able  to  be  a  husband.'^ 
When  the  time  of  her  accoiichment  arrived  we  at- 
tended her  and  found  the  child  entirely  wanting  in 
a  vao-ina  and  anus. 


The  external  labia  were  present  and  an  enlarged 
clitoris  that  was  really  a  defective  penis,  from  which 
both  the  urine  and  the  feces  w^ere  voided,  but  there 
was  no  other  developments  of  sex,  and  without  any 
seaming  cause  except  the  painful  passing  of  the  feces 
the  child  died  in  about  a  week. 

Among  those  who  saw  this  strange  freak  of  na- 
ture, was  Mrs.  Safrona  Falley  N'ye,  whose  husband 
was  an  eminent  Methodist  clergyman  stationed  at 
Rome,  ^ew  York. 

The  Author  became  acquainted  with  Miss  Falley 
while  a  student  years  previously  at  an  institution 
largely  endowed  and  named  after  her  parents  in  Ful- 
ton, Oswego  county,  'New  Yoriv.  This  ladies'  sym- 
pathies led  her  to  call  upon  the  poor  mother  of  a 
child  wdiose  defective  organs  w^ould  preclude  all  grand 
intellectual  possibilities,  not  only,  but  cleverness  in 
any  direction. 

A  man  about  thirty,  in  a  good  position  with  a 
quiet  immoral  reputation,  w^as  married  to  a  girl  of 


1.  Internal  labia  and  clitoris  forming  a  defective  penis. 
:2.  External  labia. 

^.  Lower  part  of  the  malformation. 

4.  Leg. 

5.  Where  vagina  should  be. 

6.  Where  the  anus  should  be. 


Herrnaphrodite, 


HERMAPHRODITES, 


37 


twenty  ;  one  cliild  was  born  before  a  year  had  passed^ 
and  a  second  one  in  a  year  after.  This  last  was  six 
or  seven  months  old  when  w^e  were  called  to  see  it. 
The  anus  was  perfect  as  was  the  testes,  but  the  penis 
w^as  defective  and  resembled  the  enlarged,  closed  cli- 
toris just  described  and  illustrated. 

There  was  no  cuticle  close  to  the  pubes  nor  over 
the  bladder  for  a  space  half  as  large  as  an  ordinary 
saucer  and  much  the  shape.  The  muscles  were  and 
/had  been  from  birth  as  perfectly  exposed  as  though 
{ the  cuticle  had  been  removed  with  a  knife.  Serum 
^vas  constantly  exuding  so  agonizing  the  child  that 
/  no  one  but  the  mother  could  be  induced  to  endure 
j  its  never  ceasing  irritability,  moaning  and  frequent 
\screechings. 

The  father  had  compelled  the  mother  to  sobmit 
to  sexual  relations  every  night  three  times,  and  every^^ 
day  before  he  took  his  dinner,  up  to  the  day  of  her 
accouchment ;  pleadings  and  explanations  of  disgust/ 
and  agony  were  all  unavailing,  although  he  used  no 
stimulants  except  cigars.  This  man  has  held  a  -pom- 
tion  given  him  through  the  ballots  of  the  people,, 
{7ne7i.) 

To  the  credit  of  the  Jews  be  it  said,  that  their  re- 
^^digion  protects  women  for  twelve  days  out  of  every 
\month.    Is  it  surprising  that  so  few  women  among- 
the  Jews  will  ever  marry  men  of  other  faiths  when 
there  is  no  protection  for  them  ?    These  outrages^  ar^^ 


88 


UNMASKED. 


beyond  the  sphere  of  men's  legislation  ;  and  when 
wives  are  goaded  into  suicides  or  murders,  where  can 
a  man  be  found  that  peers  into  the  facts  of  the  easel 
Such  women  are  too  poor  to  fight  with  law  for 
divorces,  and  have  too  much  maternal  love  to  leave 
their  children,  well  knowing  that  men's  laws  will  not 
give  them  to  their  real  owner,  because  mothers  cannot 
support  them  according  to  their  judgment,  of  what 
a  proper  support  for  a  child  must  be,  forgetting  that  a 
mother  will  bring  up  her  children  better-  alone  in 
X^overtj,  than  with  a  bad  husband  having  wealth. 

While  we  write,  thousands  of  women  are  praying 
for  death  to  relieve  them  from  sexual  abuse,  looking 
no  farther  into  labyrinths  of  the  evil  eftects  of  sex 
tyranny,  than  their  own  personal  agony. 

Men  will  be  better  when  the  true  principles  of 
social  life  are  fully  unmasked.  They  reflect  their 
knowledge  of  social  life  from  their  own  standpoint, 
but  how  dense  and  dark  have  been  the  clouds  through 
which  the  few  rays  of  grandeur  of  soul  have  been 
reflected. 

The  effects  upon  the  mind  are  not  so  clear  to  the 
masses,  as  mental  efforts  require  thought  to  dis- 
cern them,  and  the  masses  obtain  more  ideas  from 
sight  than  from  thought.  Thi  nking  wearies  more  than 
looking,  and  the  power  of  methodical  thought  is  not 
easily  acquired  without  some  inheritance,  although 
it  is  acquired  by  a  course  of  training.    There  are 


HERMAPHRODITES. 


39 


but  few  metaphysical  minds  and  such  learn  how 
difficult  it  is  for  the  masses  to  progress  where  much 
thought  and  reasoning  are  required.  The  clearest 
/the  most  lucid  arguments  are  often  counted  for 
naught  because  the  average  mind  cannot  grasp 
xheir  full  meaning.  A  great  amount  of  systematic 
thinking  is  required  to  trace  cause  to  effect  and  ef- 
fect to  cause  and  the  masses  not  being  methodical 
thinkers  fail  to  grasp  the  full  scope  of  deep  reason- 
ing, and  to  delve  deeply  into  metaphysical  subjects. 
But  the  facts  related  reocardino-  well  known  cases  of 
hermaphrodites,  and  the  every  day  to  be  seen  marks 
of  mothers  on  children  ought  to  arouse  thought 
among  men  of  but  ordinary  intelligence. 

In  every  community  there  are  many  cases  of  people 
with  clearly  defined  antenatal  marks  upon  them,  and 
some  who  are  deformed  from  the  same  cause. 

A  gentleman  l)rought  a  very  large  orange  to  his 
wife  who  was  enceinte  a  few  weeks.  She  thouo-ht  it 
would  seem  far  from  generous  not  to  divide,  although 
she  very  much  desired  the  whole  of  the  orange. 
When  her  child  was  born  there  was  an  orange  at- 
tached  to  its  back  with  a  little  stem. 

A  young  woman  who  was  a  few  weeks  enceinte^ 
had  her  sympathies  so  aroused  regarding  a  child 
about  seven  years  old  that  could  not  talk,  and,  be- 
lieving its  mother  derelict  in  trying  to  teach  her,  took 
the  case  in  hand  but  failed  to  better  her  condition. 


40 


UNMASKED. 


When  her  child  was  born  it  was  deaf,  and  at  the 
present  time,  cannot  say  but  a  few  words,  although 
much  older  than  children  who  talk  well. 

There  are  many  cases  of  blood  marks  on  the  face, 
caused  by  the  enceinte  mother  having  a  favorite  ani- 
mal slaughtered,  or  being  shown  an  injury  of  some 
sort. 

It  is  needless  to  multiply  cases.  Facts  suggest 
remedies  in  many  cases  ;  if  anything  in  diet  is  longed 
for,  it  by  all  means  should  be  procured  if  possible, 
as  there  is  some  want  in  the  system  that  ought  to  be 
supplied. 

"When  unusual  sights  are  forced  upon  the  attention, 
woman  ought  to  be  instructed  to  place  her  mind  upon 
the  subject,  and  resolve  that  it  shall  not  affect  the 
child  in  utero,  and  particularly,  should  woman  re- 
solve to  have  perfect  children  as  regards  sex,  that 
there  shall  be  no  more  occasions  for  letters  similar 
to  the  following  being  written  : 

Dr.  : — At  your  request  I  furnish  you  the  following 
statement : 

About  the  year  1848,  a  patient  in  man's  apparel, 
aged  about  twenty-eight  years,  applied  at  the  (Cleve- 
land (Ohio)  Medical  College  for  treatment  as  aclinic 
subject.  The  external  genital  organs  were  those  of 
I  a  male,  of  usual  development  except  that  the  scro- 
\  tum  contained  no  testicles.  The  subject  complained 
at  regular  intervals  of  about  a  lunar  month,  of  pains 


HERMAPHRODITES, 


41 


in  the  pelvic  regions,  similar  to  those  of  menstural 
colic,  followed  by  a  free  menstrual  discharge  from 
the  urethra  (penis.)  This  monthly  discharge  had 
been  regular  from  the  days  of  puberty,  continuing 
about  five  days,  and  gradually  subsiding  and  entirely 
ceasing  until  the  succeeding  period. 

The  subject  was  suspected  by  the  faculty  of  being 
\a  hermaphrodite,  and  after  the  lapse  of  a  year  or 
two  an  opportunity  was  aftbrded  for  veri^dug  the 
facts,  by  the  death  of  the  patient. 

A  post  mortem  examination  revealed  the  most  in- 
teresting fact  that  there  was  in  this  individual,  a 
complete  double  sex.  The  uterus  was  of  normal 
size  and  form,  the  fallopean  tubes  of  usual  diameter 
and  length,  admitting  the  introduction  of  a  small 
probe  to  the  ovaries  which  were  of  natural  size  and 
structure ;  the  fimbria  was  natural,  the  os-uteri  well 
developed,  projecting  naturally  into  the  vagina  ;  the 
vagina  of  the  average  size  and  structure  opening  into 
the  urethra  about  an  inch,  perhaps  less,  from  the 
neck  of  the  bladder ;  there  being  no  external  signs 
of  a  vaginal  opening  or  vulva ;  the  testicles  were 
located  about  midway  upon  each  side  between  the 
uterus  and  ovaries  in  a  fold  of  the  broad  ligaments^ 
and  were  about  two-thirds  the  size  of  those  of 
average  male  adults.  A  section  showed  a  normal  in- 
ternal structure,  but  the  microscope  did  not  reveal 
the  presence  of  spemiatozoa.    The  pubes  were  more 


42 


UNMASKED. 


prominent  than  in  the  average  male,  and  well  clothed 
with  the  usual  hirsute  covering.  The  writer  of  this 
sketch  made  tAVO  plaster  cast  models  of  the  external 
and  internal  organs,  including  the  bladder  and  rec- 
tum and  other  parts  in  situ.  Dr.  Garlick,  now  living 
at  Bedford,  Ohio,  assisted  in  the  autopsy,  and  the 
specimen  with  one  cast  is  now  or  should  be  in  the 
museum  of  the  Allopathic  College,  and  the  other 
cast  was  deposited  in  the  museum  of  the  Homeo- 
pathic College  both  of  Cleveland,  Ohio.  Prof.  H. 
P.  Gatchell,  now  living  at  Highwood,  Illinois,  and 
Prof.  Pulte,  now  living  at  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  were 
present  with  the  undersigned  when  the  examination 
was  made,  upon  which  the  above  sketch  is  based. 

J.  BRAmERD,  M.  D. 
W  ashington,  D.  C,  January  4,  1878. 

[The  above  was  furnished  the  author  with  permis- 
;sion  to  publish,  by  Prof.  Brainerd.  A  number  of 
other  eminent  gentlemen  in  the  profession,  besides 
the  professor,  and  those  mentioned  by  him,  were 
witnesses  of  the  autopsy. — The  Author.] 

In  closing  this  chapter,  we  are  not  blind  to  the 
fact,  that  whoever  makes  an  attempt  to  elucidate 
principles  not  conceded  to  be  such  by  those  ignorant 
of  the  same,  and  others  related  to  them,  may  not  re- 
ceive all  the  benefit  that  the  author  hopes  for,  in  the 
immediate  future,  but  the  "leaven"  of  scientific  truth 


a.  Uterus. 
h.  Bladder. 

c.  Testicles. 

d.  Ovaries. 

e.  Yagina. 
/.  Scrotum. 

g.  Fallopian  tubes. 

h.  Penis. 

i.  Anus. 


44 


UNMASKED. 


cannot  fail  to  be  a  poiver  wlien  there  shall  have  been- 
time  for  the  important  leavening  process  in  the 
minds  of  the  millions  who  err  from  ignorance  of 
great  principles  that  sham  modesty  has  prevented 
them  from  having  facilities  to  acquire. 


MORNINa  SICKNESS  IN  MEN. 


45 


CHAPTER  V. 
Morning  Sickness  in  Men. 

It  is  well  known  that  but  few  enceinte  women  es- 
cape morning  sickness  in  the  first  part  of  pregnancy, 


that  the  husbands  of  such  women  should  suffer  in- 
stead of  them,  has  always  been  a  m3^stery  that  has 
called  forth  no  further  explanation  than  that  "it  was 
because  of  sympathy."  There  have  been  instances 
where  the  first  symptom  of  the  enceinte  condition  of 
a  man's  wife  was  his  own  sickness  of  the  stomach  in 
less  than  twentj^-four  hours  after  her  conception.  So 
unvar3nng  and  so  marked  has  this  been,  that  a  rude 
joke  has  come  from  other  men  that  they  could  alwa3^s 
tell  to  a  day  when  a  certain  man  would  need  a  doctor 
for  his  wife.  This  has  been  a  source  of  so  great  an- 
noyance that  men  thus  effected  have  kept  as  much 
out  of  the  way  of  jokers  as  was  possible,  even  to  the 
injury  of  business  matters.  Jokes  in  any  form  in  re- 
lation to  the  giving  of  life  and  immortality,  are  be- 
neath people  with  any  pretensions  to  a  knowledge  of 
the  grandeur  and  responsibilit}^  of  human  antenatal 
development. 

The  sickness  of  the  stomach  is  owing  to  the  sym- 


throuo^h  the  nine  months.  But 


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patby  that  exists  between  the  nerves  of  the  utera&- 
and  the  nerves  of  the  stomach.  And  as  man  has  no 
uterus  or  womb,  that  he  should  suffer  all  the  terrible 

[nausea,  and  his  wife  be  perfectly  free,  is  owning  not 
to  an  ordinary  sympathy,  for  he  could  not  sympa- 
thize before  his  wife  knew  her  own  condition,  neither 
could  he  sympathize  because  of  witnessing  a  deathly 
sickness  of  the  stomach  in  her,  since  she  does  not 
experience  any  ;  therefore  we  must  delve  for  a  deeper 
reason,  and  in  so  doing  we  find  that  it  is  the  wonder- 

/ful  tine  magnetic  intelligence  that  is  communicated 

i  throuo-h  her  nerves  to  his  nerves.  In  a  word  these 
nerves  of  the  organs  of  sex,  are  wonderful  know- 
ing and  have  a  wonderful  power  of  telling  be- 
fore the  brain  does,  and  have  power  superior  to  the 
organs  of  speech  in  communicating  such  knowledge. 

All  married  people  learn  of  acts  and  motives  of 
each  other  in  this  wonderful  manner,  and  the  freer 
'they  are  from  any  sexual  wa-ong  the  clearer  and  truer 
will  be  the  knowledge  thus  gained.  Unthinking, 
unreasoning  people  even,  often  get  distinct  ideas  of 

i  moral  wn^ongs  through  this  nerve  power,  wdien  they 
have  no  other  means  of  knowing,  and  it  matters 
not  how  much  such  an  untrue  person  may  protest 
that  the  true  one  has  no  cause  for  jealousy,  the 
knowledge  thus  gained  cannot  be  blown  away  by  a 
breath  of  denial. 

Many  wives  get  distinct  ideas  of  the  existence  of 


MORNING  SICKNESS  IN  MEN. 


a  wron^-  of  some  kind,  although  they  do  not  always 
get  distinct  ideas  of  just  the  character  of  such  wrong. 

Men  sometimes  take  the  pains  of  their  wives,  and 
thus  relieve  them  from  suffering  without  any  inten- 
tion to  do  so. 

It  is  not  always  a  sympathy  that  exists  between 
married  people  that  causes  them  to  take  each  other's 
Ipainsf  but  a  power  that  is  not  yet  fully  understood. 
As  an  evidence  of  this,  a  man  whose  wife  was  taken 
with  severe  labor  pains  in  the  middle  of  a  bitter  cold 
night,  refused  to  go  to  a  neighbor's  for  a  long  time, 
telling  her  she  could  wait  until  morning  if  she  tried. 
He  at  last  went  in  an  angry  mood  and  left  the  out- 
side door  wdde  open.  His  wife  said  she  wished  with 
all  earnestness  and  pra^^ed  that  he  might  have  just 
as  severe  pains  as  she  had,  that  he  might  understand 
her  sufferings ;  and  soon  after  all  her  pains  left,  and 
a  neighbor  woman  came  to  her  alone,  saying  that 
her  husband  had  such  pains  that  he  had  to  lie  down 
in  the  street  until  he  got  over  them.  These  pains 
continued  at  intervals  after  his  return  home  all  through 
the  night  and  until  her  child  was  born,  while  her 
)(  own  pains  were  scarcely  felt.  We  are  acquainted 
with  parties  who  w^ere  themselves  cognizant  of  the 
facts  in  the  case  just  related. 

Men  who  have  morning  sickness  when  their  wives 
are  enceinte^  would  find  that  it  would  soon  cease  if 
they  would  obey  the  great  law  of  justice  to  antenatal, 


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posterity,  by  allowing  all  the  strength  of  the  pros- 
pective mother  to  be  given  to  the  child  in  utero, 
\instead  of  making  sexual  demands  upon  her. 

This  is  not  always  true  however,  for  young  men 
who  run  away  to  another  part  of  the  country,  or  even 
to  foreign  shores,  to  cure  dyspepsia  when  they  have 
seduced  girls  and  left  them  in  enceinte  conditions,  find 
that  the  world  is  not  large  enough  to  get  awaj^from 
the  great  law  of  the  language  of  the  nerves  that 
cannot  be  controverted. 

Every  man  ought  to  understand  that  much  of  the 
suffering  of  wives  from  sickness  of  the  stomach,  both 
w^hile  pregnant  and  at  other  times,  is  a  result  of 
copulation. 


KISSING.  49 


CHAPTER  VI. 
^  Kissing. 

The  above  heacliBg  may  at  a  glance  surprise  the 
reader,  since  the  most  of  people  treat  the  same  as  of 
but  little  moment  in  any  aspect  from  which  it  may 
be  viewed.  It,  however  assumes  an  importance 
's^  when  the  fact  of  venereal  disease  being  contracted  by 
H  kissing,  is  verified  by  observation  and  research.  Dr. 
!N'aphey,  and  others  eminent  in  our  profession  are 
firm  in  this  belief.  One  would  be  far  from  an  or- 
dinary reasoner  who  did  not  concede  the  probability, 
since^venereal  diseases  aifect  mucus  tissues,  not  only 
in  the  organs  of  generation,  but  those  of  the  nose 
and  mouth.  It  matters  little  how  a  venereally  di- 
seased tissue  comes  in  contact  with  sound  tissue  of 
the  same  texture,  or  quality,  if  the  most  healthy  is 
not  afi:ected,  it  is  because  of  an  unusual  power  to  re- 
sist disease,  that  very  few  people  possess. 

Those  eminent  in  the  profession  estimate  that 
twenty-five  per  cent,  of  the  people  are  tainted  in 
!  some  deo-ree  with  venereal  disease.  One  of  the  best 
authorities  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  states  that  thirty  per 
cent,  of  the  children  born  alive,  die  before  one  year 
of  age,  and  that  fully  one-fourth  are  from  some  ^ 
s^^ilitic  taint. 
^  4 


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This  is  but  a  sample  of  most  of  our  cities,  although 
some  of  the  larger  ones  have  a  still  greater  propor- 
tion. The  habit  of  kissing  children  is  a  pernicious 
one — for  if  they  are  tainted  with  the  loathsome  di- 
sease it  may  not  make  a  positive  appearance  until 
about  the  time  of  puberty,  or  still  later  in  years  ; 
still  it  is  better  to  avoid  danger  by  such  familiarity 
On  the  other  hand  the  tender  and  susceptible  lips  of 
the  young  ought  not  to  be  kissed  by  those  of  mature 
years  who  may  be  severely  affected,  although  no  symp- 
toms are  visible  in  the  face,  and  nO'  marked  ones  in 
the  mucus  membrane  of  the  mouth,  although  some 
parts  out  of  sight  may  be  badly  ulcerated 

But  aside  from  diseases  contracted,  the  habit  of 
general  kissing  is  a  reprehensible  one,  since  it  leads 
to  greater  familiarity — there  are  "holy  kisses"  from 
women  that  are  far  from  being  holy  in  the  estimation 
/of  men  who  are  so  sensual  that  the  least  kissing  or 
[petting  of  any  kind  arouses  the  animal  passions. 
\   /Married  women  have  said  that  they  never  dared  to 
^  make   the  least  demonstration  of  affection,  as  it 
aroused  their  husband's  passions  so  that  no  matter 
how  much  they  loathed  sexual  relations  at  the  time, 
•'k;  there  was  no  peace  until  they  yielded  to  sexual  em- 
brace, and  they  very  soon  learned  that  the  only  way 
to  live  in  a  way  to  control  their  own  person  was  to 
assume  indifference  to  petting  and  kissing.    If  men 
were  to  control  such  emotions  and  live  as  though 


KISSING. 


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life  had  some  elevated  sentiment  of  affection  as  well 
as  of  the  sexual  passion  they  would  find  many  a 
happy  home  with  disagreeable  wives.  Women  often 
think  as  men  ouglit  to  understand  them  that  what 
often  is  the  result  of  ignorance,  is  a  total  indifference 
to  their  wife's  desires,  so  long  as  their  own  inclina- 
tions  are  gratified. 

Parents  wrong  their  children  by  urging  or  com- 
manding them  to  kiss  people  that  are  disagreeable  ta 
them.  Men  make  their  children  and  wives  kiss 
corpses  at  funerals  of  near  relatives  when  they  loath 
the  idea,  but  dare  not  refuse  to  obey  when  told  to  do* 
so  in  a  low  and  meaning  tone.  Kissing  at  meeting 
and  parting  in  this  country  is  so  common  that  but 
few  have  considered  the  matter  until  they  have 
lived  half  a  life  time  and  observed  that  a  great  part 
of  it  is  only  enditi^ed  by  one  of  the  party,  and  is  often 
disgusting,  although  from  fear  of  offending,  the- 
real  emotions  are  suppressed.  Whoever  by  reason 
of  superior  strength  would  kiss  another  without  the 
perfect  assent  of  the  second  party,  would,  if  under 
no  fear  of  the  consequences,  take  the  basest  advan- 
tages of  womanhood,  disregarding  the  most  sacred  of 
individual  rights  of  person,  under  all  circumstances 
in  life. 

And  whoever  ignores  such  individual  rights  sets 
himself  down  as  a  tyrant,  whether  the  ruling  mo- 
tives of  such  a  person  are  guided  by  ignorance  or  by 


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•selfishness.  It  is  a  crime  upon  the  physical  but  a 
still  greater  one  upon  the  soul,  that  must  ever  call 
forth  hatred  that  may  not  be  loud,  but  a  silent  hatred 
that  is  deep  and  bitter. 

The  old  years  of  a  man's  life  who  does  not  ac- 
knowledge a  wife's  right  of  perfect  control  of  her 
person  under  all  circumstances,  will  be  a  loveless 
one,  if  not  a  wretched  one ;  unblessed  by  the  pure 
kiss  of  affection. 


HYMEXS. 


CHAPTER  YIL 
Hymens. 

The  idea  about  hymens  that  once  broken  are 
certain  signs  of  maidenly  purity,  originated  with 
brutal  men,  who  assumed  the  marital  privileges  as 
rigliis^  and  instead  of  treating  wives  tenderly  and 
gaining  their  confidence,  and  waiting  until  their- 
own  nature  called  for  the  sexual  relation  througk 
^-  their  love  of  motherhood,  and  thus  lubricatino;  the- 
vagina,  and  relaxing  the  muscular  tissues  at  the  en- 
trance, have  by  brute  force  accomplished  copulation^ 
breaking  blood  vessels  at  the  entrance  of  the  vagina^, 
and  so  injuring  the  uterus  by  such  savageness  that 
the  whole  ^\oman  nature  so  revolts  that  the  menses^ 
flow  as  a  temporary  protection  to  her. 

Precisely  the  same  result  follows  at  all  periods  ia 
woman's  life,  even  after  she  has  borne  children.  In- 

\ deed,  the  vagina  has  been  knoAvn  to  contract  more 
I  tightly  but  an  hour  after  repeated  copulative  acts, 
\than  it  was  before  the  lirst  act  after  marriage.  The 
whole  system  seems  to  spend  its  power  to  j^rotect 
\     against  such  excess,  in  its  eflbrts  to  efi:ectually  close 
^  \the  vagina,  to  prevent  more  injury  to  the  whole  nerv<^ 
system,  that  is  sure  to  follow,  no  matter  how  willmg- 
in  mind,  or  even  anxious  a  woman  may  be  to  yield 


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to  men's  demands,  for  the  sake  of  an  expected  re- 
taining of  his  affection,  or  for  other  reasons. 

This  condition  has  confounded  men,  and  made 
them  think  that  women  were  designedly  unaccom- 
modating not  only,  but  that  they  could  assume  the 
xole  of  the  virgin  at  will,  and  seem  never  to  have 
■copulated,  and  so  they  lose  confidence  in  their  having 
been  maidenly  pure. 

The  virgin  wife  who  is  compelled  to  yield  to  copu- 
lation before  she  is  herself  prepared  for  it  by  the 
j  natural  lubrications,  has  her  nerves  so  shocked  that 
j  it  frequently  occurs  that  months  pass  before  she  is 
'  Ideally  willing  to  yield  to  the  relation.    There  are 
instances  where  the  relation  is  never  desired,  because 
'Of  a  disgust  that  women  feel  for  husbands  that  never 
ract  as  though  wives  had  any  rights  but  to  yield  to 
/their  demands,  and  so  the  relation  instead  of  being 
l:a  tender  binding  one,  is  an  irritating,  separating 
[one.  that  fearfully  injures  his  whole  nervous  sys- 
tem as  well  as  hers.    For  a  women  cannot  have  an 
impaired  nervous  organization  without  a  husband 
suffering  in  his  nerves  by  his  having  contact  with 
her. 

His  ignorance  of  the  cause  of  many  ailments  that 
result  from  such  relationships  under  such  conditions, 
weigh  nothing  in  preventing  the  effects. 

Children  are  often  born  of  mothers  who  have  never 
liad  one  sexual  relation  that  has  been  other  than  a 


HYMENS. 


55 


matter  of  toleration.  The  ovum  when  in  a  proper 
€ondition,  meeting  the  matured  spermatozoa  the 
work  of  conception  must  result  when  such  germ 
and  sperm  cells  meet.  So  great  is  the  affinity  of  an 
ovum  and  a  spermatozoa  that  conception  has  taken 
place  with  whatever  of  the  hymen  there  ever  was 
in  a  perfect  condition,  as  the  following  will  show. 
A  couple  married  under  circumstances  not  favorable 
to  having  children  for  a  number  of  years.  'No  effort 
was  made  to  have  perfect  copulation,  and  not  until 
there  were  unmistakable  signs  of  accouchment,  would 
either  of  the  couple  believe  an  enceinte  condition 
possible.  The  attending  accoucher  upon  examination 
declared  that  the  most  perfect  hymen  existed,  and 
the  woman  must  certainly  be  afflicted  with  a  tumor 
that  was  about  to  be  expelled,  with  probably  fatal 
results  from  hemorrhage.  To  the  surprise  of  all  a  fine 
child  was  born  after  a  few  hours  labor,  thus  greatly 
muddling  the  brains  of  those  who  are  so  sure  of 
maidenly  purit}^  by  physical  signs.  Few  people 
ever  expect  to  keep  girls  pure  through  other  motives 
than  fear  of  results  and  exposures  ;  but  those  who  have 
no  higher  and  nobler  restraints,  are  unfitted  for 
desirable  motherhood,  reliable  wives,  and  the  per- 
manency of  the  friendship  of  pure  marriage. 

Men  with  their  greater  physical  strength,  ought 
to  despise  the  very  idea  of  taking  any  advantage 
of  women  who  know  so  little  about   their  own 


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nature,  and  so  much  less  about  the  strength  of  men 
excited  by  tobacco,  and  stimulating  drinks.  A  man 
is  less  guilty  who  commits  a  murder,  than  the  one 
who  takes  from  woman  a  consciousness  of  her 
womanly  purity.  And  he  had  better  be  dead  than 
to  carry  on  his  soul  the  marks  of  his  ow^x  degreda- 
tion,  to  say  nothing  of  the  remembrance  of  the  de- 
gredation  of  his  victims.  This  will  be  more  fully 
explained  in  the  chapter  on  the  language  of  the 
nerves,  where  the  matter  of  the  evidence  of  a  well 
marked  hymen,  {ivhich  very  seldom  exists^)  will  sink 
almost  into  nothingness  when  compared  with  the 
deep  metaphysical  truths  that  are  of  immensurable 
importance. 

It  has  been  the  experience  of  girls  that  have  been 
married  before  the  age  of  puberty  or  very  soon  aftei\ 
^  that  the  sexual  relation  before  the  body  was  matured, 
^^was  at  first  exceedingly  painful,  and  such  are  firm 
believers  in  the  humbug  hymen  theory,  which  as 
we  have  stated  is  very  seldom  found  to  exist,  although 
the  story  is  generally  believed  by  both  men  and 
women,  and  is  kept  up  to  frighten  girls  out  of  vice — 
with  w^hat  success,  the  terrible  condition  of  society 
attests,  and  ever  will  attest  until  better  motives  for 
chastity  are  taught. 


SEMINAL  WEAKNESS. 


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CHAPTER  Ylir. 


Seminal  Weakness. 


So  common  are  the  ideas  that  it  is  "seminal  weak- 
ness for  men  to  discharge  semen  w^hen  not  cohabiting- 
w^ith  women/"'  that  some  really  honest  doctors  have 
gone  so  far  as  to  advertise  themselves  to  ''cnre"  the 
same.    Others  have  made  it  a  means  to  make  money ^. 
when  they  w^ell  know  that  the  occasional  emissions 
of  that  character  is^  bnt  an  effort  of  nature  to  re* 
>^lieve  itself  of  a  surplus,  just  as  the  throwing  off  of 
the  ovum  in  woman  every  month,  is  an  effort  of 
nature  to  rid  the  system  of  the  ovum  or  eggs  that 
s^,  are  matured  and  unused.    If  men  are  in  healthy 
conditions  this  will  occur  every  month,  to  corre-  ^ 
spond  wdth  the  emitting  of  the  ovum  in  women. 
Whenever  it  occurs  oftener  in  either  men  or  w^omen, 
it  is  either  because  of  weakness  or  of  unnatural  ex- 
citement.   Tobacco,  all  kinds  of  intoxicating  drinks^ 
highly  seasoned   food,  the^vulgarity  of  women's  \ 
fashionable  dress  that  is  ever  appealing  to  the  basest  / 
passions,  cause  a  drain  upon  the  system  that  is 
undermining  the  constitutions  of  the  masses.  This 
^    must  continue  so  long  as  women  follow  the  ever 
\   changing  fashions,  which  are  studies  to  excite  men's^ 


mone}'.    As  soon  as  men  fail 


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to  be  attracted  by  one  &tyle  ;  as  soon  as  its  exciting 
novelty  begins  to  wane,  another  fashionable  means  of 
\  keeping  up  this  passional  excitement  is  presented. 
'Not  alone  are  the  lookers  on  these  fashions  injured 
in  mind,  body  and  morals,  but  the  women  themselves 
are  fearful  sufferers  in  all  these  regards.  So  inti- 
mately are  all  the  interests  of  life  blended,  that 
.neither  sex  can  suffer  alone. 

About  an  equal  number  of  men  and  women  are 
matured  and  the  unperverted  laws  of  nature  are  such 
that  men  and  women  res^Dond  to  them  equally  when 
living  properl}^  IS'ature  is  fall  of  order  ;  and  the 
ovum  and  the  spermatozoa  must  be  thrown  off  to 
.make  room  for  the  constantly  maturing.  From  the 
age'oT"puberty,  until  the  change  in  life,  the  process 
•of  throwing  off  the  ovum  is  one  essential  to  health; 
these  pass  from  the  ovaries  through  the  fallopian 
tubes  to  the  uterus.  It  is  important  that  the  sperm- 
atozoa in  men  should  pass  off  also,  protected  by 
albumen  as  they  pass  through  the  many  feet  of  tub- 
ing in  the  testes.  Although  all  semen  that  is  largely 
composed  of  albumen  does  not  contain  spermatozoa,  it 
^is  a  fact  that  where  there  is  no  albuminous  discharges, 
^  spermatozoa  is  never  found,  and  such  men  can  not  be- 
<3ome  fathers,  although  they  may  be  in  good  health. 
Instances  have  been  cited  to  disprove  this,  but  close 
investigation  has  proved  the  correctness  of  our 
poosition. 


SEMINAL  WEAKNESS. 


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We  know  an  instance  of  this  kind.  A  woman 
who  had  been  a  mother  when  her  first  husband  was 
living,  married  a  man  who  was  very  anxious  to  have 
children.  In  consulting  us  she  stated  the  difii'erence 
in  the  seminal  fluid  of  the  two  husbands,  and  when 
we  informed  her  that  he  could  not  be  a  father,  she 
expressed  regrets  on  her  husband's  account.  In  less 
than  a  year  we  attended  her  in  confinement.  In 
about  two  years  after  she  became  a  mother  again. 
Another  physician  acknowledged  the  parentage  and 
removed  from  the  city  where  they  resided.  Several 
persons  saw  through  the  intrigues  and  kept  watch 
of  the  parties,  and  knew  of  the  doctor  visiting  the 
eity  in  question  in  a  clandestine  manner,  without  her 
husband  knowing  of  the  .same.    Precisely  nine 

'  months  thereafter  she  became  a  mother  again.  The 
woman's  husband  knew  nothing;  of  the  doctor's  last 
visit,  and  was  reconciled  to  the  idea  that  he  was  the 

\  father  of  all  three  of  the  children. 

Many  cases  of  real  seminal  weakness  are  caused 
by  masturbation,  excessive  copulation,  and  by  shav- 
ing the  beard.  This  last  cause  is  a  cause  of  mastur- 
bation, for  the  whole  nerve  system  is  excited  by  the 

^shaving  process.  If  the  face  was  not  shaved  at  all, 
the  i3eard  would  not  be  so  thick  and  harsh. 

Men  very  readily  understand  the  aftect  on  the 

^  nerves  of  the  eyes  when  a  dull  razor  is  used  on  the 


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face,  and  thej  will  learn  to  trace  effect  to  cause  and 
[understand  the  irritability  of  the  organs  of  sex. 
The  face  is  a  tell-tale  of  the  life,  and  the  time  is 
not  distant  when  all  who  look  may  read  for  them- 
selves and  clearly  understand  what  men  have  seminal 
w^eakness,  and  what  are  the  causes,  for  every  vice  and 
every  outrage  on  the  great  laws  of  existence  have 
their  own  peculiar  evidences. 

Beautiful  young  women  will  not  always  marry 
seminally  weak  men  to  save  such  men's  lives,  for  they 
will  understand  that  their  suitors  have  so  destroyed 
their  re-productive  power,  that  they  may  not  be  able 
to  ever  become  fathers  for  their  children,  and  if  they 
do,  such  children  will  be  miserable  specimens  of 
humanity,  both  in  body  and  mind. 

It  is  a  lamentable  fact  that  there  are  but  few  young 
■men  to  be  found  that  are  fit  for  majriage. 


BARRENNESS. 


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CHAPTER  IX. 
Barrenness. 

There  must  be  some  defect  in  the  mind  of  a  human 
heing  that  does  not  desire  children.    The  unperver- 
ted  sexual  desires  are  filled  with  a  love  of  posterity, 
and  should  not  be  exercised  except  for  procreation. 

It  has  been  said  that  "the  love  of  posterity  is 
greater  in  woman  than  in  man,"  but  this  must  for- 
ever be  an  open  question,  since  man's  brain  is  gener- 
ally so  poisoned  with  tobacco  and  intoxicating  drinks, 
that  we  know  but  little  about  what  he  would  be 
without  having  indulged  in  the  same.  But  there  is 
a  stronger  reason  why  men  do  not  love  their  child- 
ren  as  devotedly  as  women  aside  from  the  mother 
sulfering.  A  sexually  promiscuous  life  destroys  the 
finest  and  tenderest  loves  of  life  to  a  great  extent. 
The  man  or  woman  whoever  debases  the  procreating 
functions  b}"  sexual  variety  or  change,  or  Avho  in- 
dulges for  selfish  reasons  without  desires  for  posterity, 
/lose  the  power  to  become  the  parents  of  children  of 
\the  finest  minds,  bodies  and  morals.  And  although 
they  may  not  be  idiotic,  or  may  not  be  born  her- 
maphrodites, yet  they  are  liable  to  be  enfeebled  in 
body,  dull  of  perception,  or  without  the  power  to 
leave  their  posterity  to  the  world — in  a  word  they  are 


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barren.  All  stages  and  modifications  of  evils  result 
from  an  abuse,  or  an  improper  use  of  the  organs  of 
generation.  They,  should  not  be  used  at  all  until 
mind  and  body  are  mature,  and  then  there  will  be 
a  strength  of  character,  strength  of  body  and  mind 
imparted  to  posterity  that  will  be  superior  to  both 
parents. 

If  bodies  are  mature  before  those  in  temperate 
climates  are  between  25  and  30  years  old,  the  minds 
are  not,  it  matters  not  how^  well  they  are  educated,, 
and  no  person  should  marry  until  the  mind  is  mature 
as  well  as  the  body.  Time  alone  can  bring  maturity 
that  enables  parents  to  give  to  children  constitutions 
and  capabilities  of  mind  that  are  superior  to  them- 
selves, or  even  equals  w^ith  them.  It  is  true  that  sup- 
erior advantages  of  children  to-day  leads  some  to 
think  that  their  children  are  an  improvement  on 
themselves,  but  had  they  had  the  same  advantages 
in  their  youth,  they  would  now  readily  see  that  the 
contrast  is  very  great  regarding  the  deterioration  of 
their  posterity. 

The  love  of  offspring  implanted  in  the  soul  of  those 
unable  to  become  mothers,  has  caused  many  barren  wo- 
men to  apply  to  us  for  a  remedy,  and  to  explain  the 
cause  of  barrenness.  We  have  seldom  seen  deeper 
Xlooks  of  despair  on  woman's  face  than  when  she  re- 
peated the  assertion  that  "there  is  no  hope  in  the- 
case."    Men  do  not  understand  the  depth  of  woman's- 


BARRENNESS.  6^ 

love  of  posterity.  So  great  is  this  that  women  of 
all  ages,  from  before  the  age  of  puberty,  until  long 
after  the  ordinary  possible  age  to  bear  children, 

>-dream  of  having  infants  of  their  own  in  their  arms, 
and  sometimes  of  twj.ns  and  triplets.  Few,  if  any 
men  have  any  idea  of  the  love  of  motherhood  that 
is  expressed  by  girls  to  each  other,  and  many  an. 

>  illegitimate  child  that  is  forced  from  the  mother's 
presence,  for  fear  of  publicity,  would  be  kept  regard- 
less of  consequences  to  her,  if  she  were  allowed  to 
exercise  her  maternal  rights.  A  most  marked  and, 
deepl}^  affecting  instance  of  the  love  of  children  oc- 
curred in  the  central  part  of  'New  York.  A  woman 
of  nearly  thirty  years  of  age  became  a  mother  who* 
was  never  married.  The  father  left  the  country  be- 
fore the  birth.  A  few  years  after  she  became  the- 
mother  of  another  child,  at  which  occurrence  all 
sympathy  for  her  was  extinct.  "When  the  children 
were  about  half  o-rown  she  was  summoned  as  a  wit- 
ness  on  some  neighborhood  difference,  and  the  oppos- 
ing counsel  questioned  her  in  regard  to  her  two  ille- 
gitimate children  of  different  fathers  for  the  purpose 
of  damaging  her  evidence  because  of  her  character. 

She  replied  that  the  love  of  the  father  in  the 
hopes  of  having  his  offspring  was  so  great  that  she 
pvas  ready  to  bear  all  disgrace  for  the  sake  of  having 

^  his  child  that  she  loved  so  dearly,  that  she  made  an. 


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UNMASKED. 


\   /opportunity  to  have  another  child,  so  as  to  have  one 
^ !  to  love  in  her  old  age  if  the  first  should  die. 

The  judge  on  the  bench  asked  her  why  she  did 

\ /not  marry  if  she  thought  so  much  of  children?  She 
I  replied  that  she  had  never  had  a  chance  to  marry. 
There  was  not  a  dry  eye  in  the  court,  when  they 
understood  that  woman's  love  of  motherhood,  and 
;  the  judge  in  open  court  asked  her  if  she  would  mar- 
ry  him.     And  at  the  close  of  the  court  they  were 
accordingly  married.    Veryjfew  women  are  under- 
\^    /  stood  by  men,  only  as  some  peculiar  circumstances 
^  (bring  their  real  characters  to  light.    This  results 
from  a  false  idea  of  modesty  that  men  make  for 
women  to  abide  by,  and  then  in  their  egotism  treat 
women  as  though  they  knew  all  about  them,  better 
than  they  know  themselves.    How  much  men  lose 
in  the  great  work  of  souland  body  elevation,  men 
will  never  know  until  women  make  their  own  stand- 
ard of  what  is  modest  and  right.    The  one  is  in  reality 
synonymous  with  the  other.    Ignorance  and  false 

\, modesty  always  accompany  each  other.  The  motive 
and  not  the  words  or  acts  are  truly  modest  or  other- 
wise. Whatever  any  one  person  in  the  w^orld  ought 
to  know  about  the  human  body  or  its  posssibilities, 
■organic  or  functional,  all  should  know,  for  knowledge 
that  is  gained  correctly  is  but  the  birthright  of  hu- 
manity. At  this  point  we  make  an  assertion  that  was 
never  made  before,  that  every  woman,  as  well  as  every 


BARRENNESS. 


65 


man,  has  a  right  to  know  before  marriage  whether 
that  life  partner  is  capable  of  parentage.  Science  has 
been  so  developed  that  this  can  be  ascertained  to  a 
certainty,  and  thus  prevent  all  of  the  disappoint- 
ments and  separations  resulting  from  barrenness. 
There  are  many  causes  in  both  men  and  women. 
There  are  instances  of  barrenness,  where  the  only 
cause  has  been  the  harshness  of  husbands  on  wedding 
nights.  The  nerves  of  the  vagina  were  so  shocked 
and  partially  paralyzed  that  they  never  recovered  the 
magnetic  power  sufficiently  to  foster  the  life  of  the 
spermatozoa  until  the  conception  was  perfected. 

We  have  discovered  that  some  women  have  such 
a  cartilagineous  osuteri,  that  the  spermatozoa  lose  all 
of  their  vitality  before  they  are  able  to  pass  over 
such  an  unmagnetic  place  before  arriving  into  the 
body  of  the  uterus  where  the  minute  placenta  is 
formed,  with  the  ovum  in  it,  awaiting  the  sperm- 
atozoon. Our  microscopic  experiments  have  proved 
that  one  or  more  minute  placentae  are  formed  every 
month  in  the  uterus  while  a  woman  is  able  to  bear 
children.  It  is  throuerhthe  fine  ma2;netic  attraction 
of  the  spermatozoa  for  the  ovum  that  bring  the 
former,  or  sperm,  cells,  to  unite  with  the  latter,  or 
germ  cells.  How  great  this  attraction  is  will  be 
seen  in  another  chapter,  where  a  case  is  related  of 
conception  without  perfect  copulation. 

Another  cause  of  barrenness,  is  because  of  an 
5 


66 


UNMASKED. 


elongation  of  tlie  labia  of  the  osnteri,  making  the 
osuteri  so  gross  and  unmagnetic,  that  the  sperma- 
tozoa cannot  pass  into  the  nterus  because  of  the  re- 
]3ulsion.  Another  cause  is  that  the  osuteri  is  so 
small  that  the  menstrual  fluid  is  forced  throuo^h  this 
orifice  causing  great  pain  and  consequent  inflamma- 
tion, rendering  conception  impossible,  because  of  the 
heat  of  the  inflammation  so  soon  destroying  the  sper- 
.matozoa.  Another  reason  is,  that  the  expulsive  pains 
so  injure  or  destroj^the  minute  placenta,  that  when  the 
inflammation  subsides  there  is  no  ovum  or  placenta 
in  the  uterus  to  receive  the  spermatozoa.  Another 
reason  is  that  the  albuminous  fluid  given  off  every 
month  to  fill  the  neck  of  the  uterus  as  soon  as  con- 
ception takes  place  is  of  such  a  vitiated  character  that 
the  neck  of  the  uterus  cannot  retain  it.  Although 
this  last  substance  could  be  contained  in  less  than 
half  of  a  small  thimble,  it  glues  up  the  neck  of 
the  uterus  to  prevent  air  and  other  influences  from 
interfering  with  the  great  and  beautiful  laws  of 
foetal  developement. 

Barrenness  is  sometimes  caused  from  temperament- 
al inharmonies,  but  wrongs  are  every  day  to  be  met 
where  the  parents  had  better  have  been  barren  than 
to  have  united  such  temperaments,  that  the  pov/er 
of  longevity  was  lost  in  the  children,  or  the  general 
make-up  was  defective. 

Most  of  the  cases  of  barrenness  in  women,  yield 


BARRENNESS. 


67 


to  medical  or  surgical  treatment.  But  there  are 
cases  in  men,  that  cannot  be  remedied,  and  it  is  a 
crime  for  such  men  to  marrj  without  the  intended 
wife  fully  understanding  that  he  is  powerless  to  be- 
come a  father.  'No  man  or  woman  whose  respect 
is  worth  having,  but  would  thank  another  for  hon- 
estly revealing  their  true  condition. 

The  temperamental  conditions  have  a  wonderful 
eftect  on  barrenness  in  old  age,  as  is  seen  in  the  fol- 
lowing cases. 

The  noble  Italian  lady,  Dianora  Frescobalh,  was 
the  mother  of  fifty -two  children. 

There  is  a  monument  in  Aberconway  Church,  to 
^Nicholas  Hooper,  who  was  a  forty-Hrst  child,  and 
the  father  of  twenty-seven  children  by  one  wife. 

The  wife  of  the  coachman  of  Charles  X.  became 
enceinte  Avhen  sixty-five  years  old. 

Maj;ga£etjCribsowne,  who  died  in  1763  at  the  age 
of  108  years, married  her  third  husband  at  njnet)^-four\ 
years  of  age,  who  was  at  the  time  of  marriage  105  j 
years  old.  They  had  three  children,  all  of  ordinary  I 
height,  but  they  never  had  any  teeth  ;  their  hair 
was  gray,  complexions  withered,  and  had  decre^itj 
step^. 

In  self-imposed  barrenness,  married  men  object  to 
having  children  because  of  their  trouble  when  young. 
Some  from  fear  that  they  may  be  deformed,  or  that 
they  may  not  be  very  clever,  and  no  credit  to  them- 


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selves.  Some  because  of  a  want  of  an  understanding 
that  maternity  does  not  injure  women  in  any  sense 
as  wives  if  all  the  laws  are  observed.  Some  because 
they  are  too  penurious  to  pay  the  extra  expenses  that 
their  wives  would  demand,  or  their  own  pride  sug- 
gest. Some  because  they  do  not  wish  to  have  their 
wives  ever  in  a  condition  where  their  own  demands 
cannot  be  supplied,  and  where  their  wive's  whole 
attention  cannot  be  paid  to  them,  for  those  who 
practice  variety  before  marriage  are  tyrants  in  mar- 
riage, and  generally  continue  their  promiscuity  to  a 
greater  or  less  extent,  hoping  by  putting  on  a  kind 
•of  rigidity  of  manners  that  they  will  convince  their 
wives  of  their  correctness  of  morals. 

We  would  not  do  an  injustice  to  men,  for  the  same 
things  holds  true  regarding  women  who  practice  a 
variety  life,  as  is  seen  in  some  tribes  of  East  India 
and  in  Africa,  where  the  women  have  plurality  of 
husbands. 

The  love  of  posterity  is  never  as  intense  with  ya- 
f riety  people  as  with  those  w^ho  have  always  lived 
true  lives. 

The  motives  that  call  forth  the  love  of  posterity 
are  many.  The  first  and  general  one  is  that  ever 
grasping  to  attain  all  that  is  within  the  possibilities 
of  mortals,  and  to  be  considered  equals  with  the  rest 
of  mankind. 

Where  honors  and  titles  are  inherited  there  is  a 


BARRENNESS. 


69 


desire  to  perpetuate  that  style  of  greatness,  and  it 
sometimes  occurs  that  the  most  cruel  of  measures  are- 
resorted  to  for  the  accomplishment  of  such  a  purpose. 
The  beautiful  Josephine  will  ever  be  cited  as  an  in- 
stance of  this  character. 

A  prevalent  motive  everywhere,  is  to  have  some- 
one to  care  for  them  in  old  age,  and  no  matter  what 
are  the  examples  of  ingratitude  of  many  children, 
a  hope  that  theirs  will  be  all  they  desire  is  ever  in- 
dulged. 

Few  men  can  ever  understand,  and  perhaps  no 
man  can,  how  deep  is  the  love  of  posterity  for  the 
purpose  of  having  something  pure  to  pet  and  place 
their  affections  upon  as  the  predominant  motive,, 
although  they  have  all  the  other  motives  that  men 
have  also. 

We  have  known  cases  where  the  maternal  love 
was  so  great  with  women  whose  husbands  were  post- 
^    poning  for  years  their  wives  desired  maternity,  that 
they  have  been  led  to  study  regarding  the  fulfillment 
y)f  such  desire  from  another  source. 

We  know  of  cases  where  widowers  with  children 
^    when  looking  for  second  wives,  have  protested 
"^j against  marrying  women  w^ho  were  young  enough 
\o  bear  children. 
V        Some  young  women  have  distinctly  told  such  men 
xthat  they  desired  children,  and  thus  defeated  the 
contemplated  marriages. 


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UKMASKED. 


There  are  men  who  become  aiigry  every  time  their 
wives  become  pregnant,  and  treat  them  as  though 
they  had  committed  some  crime,  and  by  such  treat- 
ment compel  them  to  actually  commit  a  crime  in 
producing  abortion. 

We  know  of  a  case  where  the  maternal  love  was 
so  great,  that  a  wife  was  determined  to  have  a  sec- 
ond child,  fearing  that  the  first  (about  eight  years 
of  ago)  might  die  and  leave  her  childless.    She  suc- 

[ceeded  in  her  plans  for  conception  after  a  second 
month's  trial,  in  taking  the  semen  from  the  sheet  and 
introducing  it  into  the  vagina.  Her  child  was  a 
w^ell  developed  boy,  with  the  exception  of  having 
part  of  the  cranial  bones  entirely  absent.  It  lived 
but  a  few  hours. 

Good  men  cannot  form  a  clear  conception  of  the 
fbase  motives  of  some  men  regarding  the  tenderest 
^interests  of  life,  and  they  hurry  their  daughters  into 
marriage  with  any  sort  of  a  man  that  has  wealth  or 
position,  never  thinking  whether  the  man  may  be 
able  to  become  a  father  of  grand  specimens  of  hu- 
manity or  not,  or  whether  his  daughter  may  not  be 
barren  and  she  be  an  imposition  on  her  husband. 
Deception  on  one  side  is  as  reprehensible  as  on  the 
other. 


vSOCIAL  EVIL. 


71 


CHAPTER  X. 
The  Social  Evil. 

Eev.  Dr.  Muhlenberg  in  one  of  his  sermons,  gave 
ii  withering  reproof  to  fashionable  woman  church 
goers  as  follows  : — "One  of  the  great  inducements  to 
-^women  to  ply  an  immoral  trade,  is  a  fondness  for 
/  fiiierj,  copying  their  sisters  in  higher  life,  who,  by 
{ their  example  of  vain  show  in  dress,  have  more  to 
answer  for  in  the  matter  than  they  suspect.'' 

E'othing  could  be  truer,  and  when  once  in  the 
Ivortex,  they  find  they  can  live  easier  and  more  idly) 
jthan  in  other  ways,  not  knowing  that  they  will  soon 
Uose  the  mental  power  to  concentrate  their  energies  \  > 
on  anything  that  would  be  honorably  supporting,^*}  i/ 
■unless  endowed  with  an  unusual  amount  of  will 
power.    They  do  not  understand  that  there  is  any-, 
thing  to  be  thought  of  in  the  case  but  a  loss  of  the  ^ 
respect  of  people,  an  avoidance  of  child-bearing,  and 
precautionarj^  measures  against  venereal  diseases.  / 

They  do  not  know  that  their  i^assions  will  not  al-'^  ^ 
ways  hold  out,  and  they  know  nothing  about  the  ' 
fearful  drain  upon  their  nerve  forces. 

But  one  of  the  great  motives  in  yielding  in  the 
tirsjb  place,  with  the  masses  of  unfortunate  women,  is  / 
\  a  5^£i5;^ty^'that  is  intensified  with  the  inducements,  ^ 


72 


UNMASKED. 


and  with  the  natural  instincts  of  everything  that 
has  life. 

We  have  failed  to  find  any  men  speakers  or  writers 
that  understand  this,  for  the  most  abandoned  will 
not  acknowledge  this  to  men  who  undertake  to  peer 
into  their  lives. 

Men  cannot  deal  with  this  question  properly,  be- 
cause they  do^oLnnderstand  women.  The  best  of 
writers  on  this  subject  are  full  of  false  theories,  and 
false  conclusions  that  the  mass  of  women  who  read 
the  same  assent  to,  because  it  is  considered  some- 
thing quite  creditable  among  women  generally  to 
r  speak  of  the  sexual  relation  as  simply  a  marital  ac- 
quiesance  on  the  part  of  women  who  are  married, 
and  of  great  passions  on  the  part  of  any  woman  who 
is  having  such  relations  out  of  marriage. 

The  best  of  men  writers,  whose  researches  on 
these  subjects  have  been  great,  will  assert  with  all 
the  assurance  possible,  that  "women's  passions  are 
not  as  strong  as  men's."  And  they  will  bring  what 
they  term  proof  to  bear  them  out  in  such  assertions, 
but  nothing  could  possibly  be  more  radically  false. 
On  the  other  hand  the  sexual  passions  of  women  are 
stronger  than  those  of  men,  but  the  early  training 
of  self  control,  make  the  habits  of  continence  so 
strong  that  men  mistake  self  control  for  weak  pas^ 
sional  natures. 

There  are  times  in^very  month  of  menstruating 


SOCIAL  EVIL.  73 

women  that  only  the^^oral  sentiments  save  them,\)^ 
this  is  a  perversion  of  the  love  of  posterity  that  a ) 
combination  of  causes  have  produced. 

When  the  minute  placenta  is  formed  in  the  uterus 
and  the  ovum  awaiting  the  arrival  of  the  sperm 
cells  to  unite  with  the  germ  cells,  there  cannot  be 
a  louder  call  than  is  made  with  the  nerves  of  the^  / 
vagina,  all  intensified  with  menstrual  flow  that  every ! 
month  gives  new  power  to  the  vaginal  nerves.  The 
very  formation  of  woman  ought  to  teach  a  scientific 
man  that  her  excitement  as  a  natural  consequence  ^ 
would  be  far  more  intense  than  his.    This  is  seen 
in  the  confessions  of  women  whose  husbands  or 
lovers  were  using  precautionary  measures  to  prevent 
conception,  and  were  not  permitted  to  do  so.    It  is 
seen  in  abundant  cases  where  women  marry  men  ^ 
far  beneath  them,  and  some  widows  resort  to  allN 
sorts  of  measures  to  gratify  the  sexual  passions,  and  ) 
retain  the  respect  of  people  by  a  chaste  appearance  / 
if  they  can  but  gratify  at  all  hazards. 

The  greater  strength  of  women's  passions  as  com- 
pared with  men  is  seen  in  their  willingness  to  take 
all  risks  of  passing  through  the  agonies  of  abortions- 
that  are  often  greater  than  those  of  full  grown  child 
bearing^. 

AVe  must  take  human  nature  as  we  find  it,  and 
then  try  to  make  the  world  better  by  lessons  of  his- 
tory, observation  and  experience. 


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UNMASKED. 


Social  evils  are  mi_regulated  passions  as  well  as 
/perverted  passions,  and  the  want  of  local  bathing, 
the  use  of  condiments  and  of  stimulants  are  fruitful 
causes  of  such  perversion.    The  unhygienic  style  of 
V  woman's  dress  that  compresses  a  portion  of  the 
body,  and  by  its  very  length  causes  displacements  of 
■the  uterine  organs,  and  defective  circulation  of  the 
blood  through  them  and  contiguous  organs,  keeps  up 
"^an  excited  condition.    It  is  estimated  that  seven 
f  tons  of  blood  pass  through  the  heart  every  twenty- 
four  hours,  and  in  doing  this  the  blood  is  unnaturally 
^  t  heated  in  the  organs  of  generation  by  the  compression 
\  of  the  clothing  around  the  waist  and  loins. 

All  the  theories  of  shoulder  straps  and  bodies  on 
petticoats  relieving  this  condition  are  very  plausible 
in  the  minds  of  men  physicians  who  never  can  know 
'by  actual  experience,  to  how  limited  an  extent  is 
this  true. 

'^'The  ordinar}^  length  of  women's  clothing,  arranged 
as  best  it  can  be,  is  detrimental  to  the  organs  of  gen-- 
■eration  and  much  of  the  false  reasoning  on  the  sub- 
ject has  resulted  from  the  ignorance  of  men  doctors, 
who  could  not  fully  understand  the  subject  because 
they  are  men.  'Not  until  women  physicians  experi- 
mented and  traced  cause  to  effect  and  effect  to  cause, 
was  this  subject  understood. 

The  proper  arrangement  of  woman's  clothing  (the 
reform  dress)  must  become  general,  before  there  is 


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-any  hope  of  mastering  the  so.nal  evil  r|iiestion.    For  ^ 
/•Avhile  woman  is  kept  unnaturally  exeiteiL  or  in  al  ^ 
I  condition  to  be  easily  excited  sexually,  lyv  the  ordi-1 
I  nary  styles  of  her  clothing,  the  social  evil  (|UL-stion 
will  be  one  about  which  the  brain  will  muddled, 
and  all  elforts  to  reform  by  moral  stiasion.  prayers, 
kindness,  harshness,  midnight  meetings,  houses  of 
reformation,  and  other  conceivable  plans  will  bring- 
but  meagre  and  discouraging  results. 

The  same  effect  of  unc'^ually  arrangtHl  dress  on 
the  nerves  of  sensatiou,  with  the  nervo-Autal  iiuiil  is 
true,  injuring  women  a  thousand-foLl  worse  than  it 
as  possible  to  injure  men,  l:)ecau:?e  men  have  not  the 
internal  organs  of  geueration  that  women  have. 
Both  men  and  Aviunen  must  understand  the  chap- 
ters on  The  Language  of  the  Xerves.  and  Pure  ^Ian- 
hood,  the  necessity  for  daily  local  bathing  and  the 
avoidance  of  all  stimulants,  before  the  great  problem 
of  the  cure  of  social  evils  are  reached.    And  then 
both  men  and  women  must  cultivate  themselves  in 
accordance  with  the  highest  ideas  of  both  fatherhood 
and  motherhood. 
»         "We  are  rejoieed  to  have  an  opportunity  to  i^uote 
Jules  Favreof  the  Corps^  Legislative:  He  says  '-The 
only  way  to  solve  the  social  evil  problem,  is  to  ele- 
vate the  standard,  of  morals  for  men  to  that  of  the 
purest  women."'    That  is  most  excellent,  but  he  nor 
any  other  raan  can  see  to  the  very  bottom  of  the  evil 


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or  they  would  see  that  no  one  single  effort  or  a  single 
measure  could  do  away,  with  the  monstrous  evil. 

There  is  so  much  to  be  said  upon  this  subject,  that 
full  elaboration  would  be  impossible  in  our  limited 
space. 

We  must  at  this  time  enter  our  protest  against  the 
course  of  so-called  "  scientific  men,"  who  advise  young 
men  to  "cohabit  with  women  to  improve  their  health." 
It  would  be  no  more  monstrous  to  give  such  advice 
to  young  women  than  it  is  to  young  men. 

The  organs  of  generation  are  for  the  specific  pur- 
pose of  procreating,  and  if  not  used  for  that  purpose ; 
the  natural  means  of  ridding  the  system  of  an  unusual 
accumulation  is  taken  by  nature. 

While  marriage  is  favorable  to  health  and  longev- 
ity, because  of  many  stimulants  to  exertion  such  as 
children  and  the  accumulative  interests  consequent 
on  marriage,  we  have  abundant  proof  of  the  general 
good  health  of  body  and  mind  of  those  who  have 
never  married.  Among  such  are  the  names  of  the 
following:  well  known  women : 

Dr.  Harriet  K.  Hunt,  the  first  educated  woman 
practitioner  in  America;  Charlotte  Cushman,  the 
American  theatrical  star;  Rosa  Bonheur,  France's 
greatest  artist  in  animal  painting  ;  Florence  i^ight- 
ingale,  England's  most  prominent  army  nurse,  and 
Miss  Burdet  Coots,  the  great  English  philanthropist. 
The  lives  of  these  women  prove  what  can  be  achiev^ed 


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77 


hj  using  the  powers  in  other  directions  than  those 
of  sex  merely,  and  letting  the  reproductive  organs  rest 
from  excitement  of  indulgence.  Woman  individu- 
ally, is  the  only  one  capahle  of  judging  when,  how 
often,  if  ever,  she  is  to  take  measures  to  become  a 
mother  as  all  men  are  free  to  decide  what  is  of  im- 
measurable importance  to  them. 

Some  of  the  greatest  men  that  have  ever  lived 
have  chosen  never  to  marry,  and  have  distinguished 
themselves  by  the  use  of  brain  power,  instead  of 
■draining  their  systems  through  their  organs  of  sex.  J 
Among  these  are  Sir  Isaac  IN'ewton ;  Gibson,  the  sculp- 
tor ;  Pitt,  the  statesman ;  Baron  Von  Humbolt,  the 
scientist ;  Kent,  the  metaphysician,  and  Jacob 
Gremm,  the  philologist. 

Unless  there  is  a  stay  to  the  social  evil,  the  time 
is  not  distant  when  the  world  will  sink  back  into 
barbarism. 

The  few  who  put  on  their  virtuous  cloaks  to  shield 
themselves  from  a  discussion  of  these  subjects,  pre- 
ferring rather  to  ignore  evils  in  their  own  circles  and 
let  the  rest  of  the  world  take  care  of  itself,  are  of 
but  little  use  to  us  or  the  rest  of  humanity.  Ignor- 
ing the  evils  of  life  is  not  the  philosophical  way  of 
treating  them.  They  should  be  discussed  by  the 
deepest  metaphysicians,  and  all  should  be  taught 
their  existence  and  consequences,  as  the  safe  method 
of  avoidance. 


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Tliiey  icill  learn,  it  is  impossible  to  prevent  tlieir 
gaining  knowledge  from  the  basest  standpoints,  and 
through  the  most  vulgar  kind  of  language.  How 
much  better  to  be  taught  correctly  and  fill  the  minds 
with  correct  ideas  and  the  true  uses  of  all  thino-s. 
^Science  knows  no  false  modesty.  Much  of  the  social 
evil  is  far  beyond  the  sphere  of  legislation,  but  can 
be  reached  and  the  wrongs  thereof  righted  through 
knowledge  in  youth. 

The  effects  of  tobacco  on  the  organs  of  generation 
are  well  known  to  the  profession  as  excitants,  and 
also  as  having  an  effect  on  the  early  decay  of  the 
i  generative  functions  of  both  sons  and  daughters,  as- 
^  well  as  parents.  Dr.  E.  E.  Phelps,  Professor  for  many 
years  in  Dartmouth  College  ;  Dr.  ^N'apheys,  the  medi- 
cal author  ;  Dr.  Pidduck  of  London ;  Dr.  C.  McDougal, 
Dr.  Wells,  Dr.  Trail,  Drs.  Fowler,  Dr.  Gardner,  Dr. 
Smith,  and  a  host  of  others  learned  in  the  profession,, 
are  convinced  of  the  social  evils  that  are  aggravated  by 
the  noxious  weed — tobacco. 

S.  Weir  Mitchell,  M.  D..  of  the  Philadelphia  In- 
firmary for  I^ervous  Diseases,  in  a  recent  paper,  says 
/that  "tobacco  is  of  all  causes  the  most  potent  in  giv- 
ving  rise  to  general  nervousness." 

We  hope  the  Doctor  will  give  a  learned  essay  upon, 
the  effects  on  wives  of  men  who  use  the  noxious 
poison  by  portraying  at  length  how  the  lungs,  the 
kidneys,  the  skin,  and  especiall}^  the  prostate  gland. 


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79 


surrouncliDO'  the  iiretlira,  gather  up  and  throw  out 
the  poisons  that  are  introduced  into  the  system. 

The  socM^ejvjLamong  the^  married  prevails  to  an 
extent  that  is  appalling.    The  very  influence  of  sex- 
ual variety  that  the  husband  carries  to  his  wife 
through  his  neryes  in  his  sexual  relation  Avith  her,- 
impresses  her  with  the  idea  of  indulging  in  a  variety 
also^and  so  the  pure  girl  that  he  married  with  no 
other  thought  hut  of  faithfulness  to  him,  his  own  / 
course  of  life  has  changed,  and  made  her  nnadde  to  ^ 
resist  a  variety  life.    Her  husband  seduces  young 
girls,  and  brings  to  her  in  his  sexual  relations  with 
her  the  sinr'd  of  seduction  of  the  innocent,  and  so  she 
reasons  that  if  there  is  something  desirable  in  initi-  ^ 
ating  young  girls  in  sexual  relations,  that  it  must  be  \  ^ 
equally  so  to  initiate  young  men  and  so  she  pursues  v 
her  course. 

And  just  so  long  as  men  are  unfaithful  to  them- 
selves  before  or  after  marriage,  will  young  men  be  j 
seduced  by  married  women.    Such  cases  are  increas-  / 
ing  at  a  fearful  rate,  and  will  continue  to  increase 
until  men  who  are  stronger  physically  than  women 
will  refrain  from  degrading  themselves  by  taking  on' 

Mthe  vile  magnetism  of  illicit  intercourse  that  once 
imbibed  is  ever  after  a  part  of  the  man,  as  much  as 
his  hand,  and  is  a  part  of  the  inheritance  of  poster^ 
ity. 

Popular  ignorance  on  these  points  will  not  atfect 


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the  great  laws,  and  while  we  have  been  able  to  make 
some  discoveries  and  application  of  laws  and  princi- 
ples of  the  science  of  life,  we  should  consider  silence 
upon  such  important  matters  a  crime  of  great 
magnitude,  when  we  contemplate  that  millions  are 
living,  and  billions  unborn  that  are  to  be  benefited 
by  such  knowledge. 

Both  men  and  women  suffer  aside  from  the  usual 
diseases  of  body  and  mind,  who  are  actors  in  the 
social  evil  wrongs.  Among  the  same  are  two  that 
are  fearful  results,  the  prolapsus  of  the  scrotum  in 
man,  and  the  terrible  hemorrhages  of  the  uterus  in 
the  change  of  woman's  life.  There  are  no  reprieves 
from  the  prison  of  the  soul.  And  no  remitting  of 
the  penalties  of  outraged  nature. 

Even  in  animal  life  there  are  marked  instances  of 
the  great  law.  Somewhere  there  is  a  rebellion  against 
such  wrongs  in  the  shape  of  a  mare  having  but  two 
legs ;  a  heifer  having  an  extra  foot  growing  from 
the  shoulder  ;  a  calf  having  six  feet,  etc. 

The  magnetic  power  is  the  life,  and  to  illustrate 
how  poisoning  is  the  variety  touch,  we  relate  the 
instances  of  the  deaths  of  two  of  Barnum's  choicest 
ponies. 

A  woman  so  degarded  that  not  even  the  lowest 
attaches  of  Barnum's  shows  would  associate  with 
her  sexually,  was  hired  by  them  for  a  pony^  The 
animal  was  fixed  in  a  frame,  but  as  soon  as  she  was 


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81 


touched,  he  fell  back  dead.  The  same  experiment 
was  tried  with  another  woman  and  another  pony  by, 
these  men,  with  the  same  result.  These  women 
submitted  to  the  degradation  to  get  their  bread,  and 
for  the  pittance  paid,  Barnum  lost  his  valuable 
ponies. 

"Will  men  never  see  that  in  a  thousand  ways  their 
oppression  of  women  are  visited  upon  themselves  ? 
The  above  case  is  but  a  financial  retribution  while 
the  following  is  a  physical  one  oi^  poignant  character: 

One  of  the  young  queens  in  the  South  Sea  Islands 
married  a  prince  who  died  while  in  the  first  act  of 
coition.  In  due  course  of  time  the  next  brother 
married  her  with  the  same  result.  The  third  brother, 
according  to  the  custom  of  every  brother  marry- 
ing his  brother's  widow  until  an  heir  was  born,  re- 
luctantly married  her,  knowing  that  both  his  brothers 
had  died  from  the  eftect  of  having  the  head  of  the 
penis  entirely  severed.  He  was  cautious,  and  de- 
clared she  had  a  little  knife  concealed  inside  of  her, 
and  as  his  mutilated  condition  was  testimony  in  the 
case,  she  was  killed  and  examination  revealed  the 
attachment  to  the  uterus  of  three  small  bones  with 
sharp  edges. 

^^'ature  has  strange  freaks  in  her  efforts  to  enforce 
her  law  of  the  rights  of  woman  to  her  own  person ; 
we  say  freaks,  because  we  have  not  yet  delved  into 
the  m^^steries  that  envelop  unusual  cases. 
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82 


UNMASKED. 


There  are  instances  where  the  daughters  born  from 
marital  rape,  have  inherited  such  a  power  of  vagina 
/resistance,  that  the  coition  grasp  in  orgasm  has 
I  caused  a  man  the  most  excruciating  pain.    There  are 
two  instances  in  this  city  that  are  known  to  be  such. 
One  is  a  case  of  a  woman  in  good  social  position,  who 
/has  all  the  fierceness  of  passion  of  the  father  and  the 
[resistance  of  the  mother,  n^iaking  her  just  the  char- 
\acter  she  is. 

'No  man  ever  has  but  one  sexual  relation  with  her 
and  considers  himself  fortunate  to  be  able  to  escape 
alive.  It  is  utterly  beyond  her  power  to  control  in 
any  degree  the  muscular  tissues  of  the  vagina,  and 
the  bruised  condition  of  her  victims  are  occasions  of 
^apologies  and  regrets. 

The  woman  has  property,  and  when  she  fails  to 
'win  a  victim  through  ordinary  arts,  she  pays  a  con- 
[  sideration  for  whoever  she  can  get,  but  no  amount  of 
\money  can  make  a  second  purchase. 

The  very  atmosphere  is  filled  with  wrongs  of  man 
to  woman  of  more  or  less  aggravated  character. 
Women  are  oppressed  because  they  will  not  sink  into 
the  immoralities  of  the  age,  or  even  sanction  the 
same.  Woman  is  denied  legislative  justice  because 
she  has  so  much  logic  that  she  cannot  see  any  rea- 
son why  she  has  not  as  good  a  right  to  help  to  make 
and  to  administer  laws  that  govern  both  men  and 
women  as  men  have,  and  because  she  dares  to  dress  in 


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83 


as  time  saving^  health  saving,  strength  saving  and  rnoney 
saving  manner  as  man. 

One  class  of  men  oi)press  because  woman  lives  up 
to  the  purest  ideas  of  the  grandeur  of  earth  life, 
while  another  class  oppress  woman  because  she  goes 
to  the  extreme  of  immoralities.  The  question  might 
arise  which  class  of  men  are  the  better  of  the  two  ? 

An  eye  witness  informed  us  of  an  instance  of  the 
latter  that  all  men  ought  to  know  of.  Sixteen  meii\ 
in  one  evening  c^ohabited  with  one  woman,  and  after  ^ 
the  same,  without  one  of  them  having  given  the  de- 
graded woman  a  penny,  took  a  large  dog  and,  with 
one  accord,  compelled  her  to  submit  to  another  deg-  ^ 
radation  ! !  1  AYhile  grand  and  cultured  women  are 
oppressed  in  high  places,  the  very  atmosphere  is  filled 
with  oppression  that  is  meted  out  to  otlier  women  by 
men  of  lower  grades,  in  ways  that  V'Ould  shock  the 
former  oppressors.  Thus  the  sentiment  of  oppres- 
sion carries  with  it  no  safety  valve.  The  veiy  senti- 
ment preached,  lived  or  even  cherished  will  return  to 
your  daughters  through  men  of  degraded  habits,  to 
sting  like  a  viper,  although  you  may  have  sung  them 
as  a  bird  before  your  reverses  of  station  and  of  for- 
tune. 

It  is  a  hard  matter  to  decide  where  the  greater 
crime  exists,  whether  in  debasing  a  pure  and  true/ 
soul  with  brilliant  attainments,  or  taking  advantage 
of  one  with  little  mind  and  meager  attainmentsy 


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Who  shall  decide  which  injures  society  the  more? 
ISTo  canvas  is  of  sufficient  dimensions  to  delineate 
the  features  of  these  cases.  But  in  the  great  future 
the  canvases  will  be  unrolled  to  view.  Let  imagi- 
nation paint  its  own  picture  to  every  man  according 
to  life.    One  such  will  be  related  here : 

A  young  girl  is  the  victim  of  a  promising  young 
man.  He  deserts  her  and  she  sinks  lower  and  lower 
until  she  is  a  filthy  blear-eyed  monster,  sinking  out 
of  life  in  a  below  stairs  den,  from  which  she  is  boxed 
oip  and  sent  to  ''potter's  field."  The  brilliant  young 
man  has  so  covered  his  various  conquests  that  he  has 
been  called  respectable  all  through  life.  He  has 
wealth,  position,  a  fine  family,  and  finally  dies  in  his 
palatial  residence,  and  is  conveyed  to  the  family 
vault  with  public  honors.  Voice  and  press  are  loud 
in  extolling  his  virtues,  while  he  is  taking  up  his 
quarters  in  the  realm  of  the  disembodied. 

The  first  object  that  meets  his  eyes,  grasps 
his  hand,  and  speaks  his  name,  is  the  degraded 
woman  that  is  now  one  of  the  component  parts  of 
^  his  "Hell."  He  starts  in  consternation^  he  tries  to 
speak  a  begone^  he  attempts  to  wrench  his  hand  from 
her  grasp,  but  finds  himself  powerless.  He  then 
takes  a  retrospective  view  of  his  life  and  goes  into 
all  the  labyrinths  of  labyrinths  through  which  his 
victim  and  victim  of  victims  has  passed,  and  with 
€very  thought  and  shadow  of  a  thought,  comes 


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85 


liome  to  him  the  dreadful  realization  that  he  has- 
been  the  grand  mogul  of  the  pure  creatures  destiny 
before  him.  The  company  he  sought  in  earth  life, 
and  robbed  of  their  magnetic  power,  rush  to  him  in 
spirit  life,  with  all  the  bad  magnetism  that  are  far 
worse  than  a  literal  fire  and  brimstone. 

A  son  of  a  wealthy  and  prominent  gentleman  in  a 
northern  city,  who  was  boarding  at  a  fashionable 
hotel,  took  a  woman  in  bed  with  his  wife  who  had 
been  a  friend  of  hers.  The  shock  of  misplaced  confi- 
dence in  both  of  them  was  so  great,  (and  what  of 
abuse  was  meted  to  the  wife  in  other  regards  we 
may  never  know,)  that  wife  became  so  demented  that 
she  almost  entirely  lost  the  power  of  speech,  and 
scarcely  knows  enough  to  feed  herself.  This  occur- 
red several  years  since,  and  at  last  accounts  she  w^as 
still  living  and  in  the  same  condition. 

How  the  mental  and  physical  could  be  so  afiected, 
just  what  process  of  action  on  both  through  the  nerves 
was  the  cause  of  the  result,  is  a  study  for  the  meta- 
physician, and  until  it  shall  be  solved,  will  come 
under  the  head  of  the  "unknowables." 

As  the  lower  classes  are  so  badly  conditioned, 
we  can  only  hope  to  right  the  wrongs  of  the  social 
evils,  through  science  in  the  better  classes  of  society 
as  regards  wealth  and  general  culture,  ^^ot  better 
as  regards  morals,  save  that  there  is  less  of  the  posi- 


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tive  brutality  towards  woman,  and  more  of  wooing 
into  evil. 

A  case  occurred  in  Washino-ton  as  follows :  A  ofen- 
tleraan  who  was  addressing  a  lady  with  the  avowed 
intention  of  marriage,  did,  bj  positive  force,  succeed 
in  violating  her  person.  He  married  her  soon  after. 
IBut  he  so  shocked  her  sense  of  the  proprieties  of 
life,  the  selfhood  of  woman  and  rights  of  woman  to 
lier  own  person,  he  so  disgusted  her  with  the  sexual 
relation  that  she  told  him  before  marriage  that  she 
should  never  be  party  to  such  a  relation  again. 

They  have  been  living  together  for  near  twenty 
years,  and  no  iniiuence  could  be  brought  to  bear  to 
induce  her  to  change  her  resolution.    She  has  been 

/  uniformly  kind  and  attentive  to  him  except  when  the 

I  sexual  relation  has  been  suggested  in  any  way,  and 
then  she  has  been  endowed  with  superhuman  power 
of  resistance.  He  was  not  out  of  the  borders  of  civili- 
zation and  could  not  do  as  one  of  the  Indian  Agents 
did  in  Wisconsin  a  few  years  since,  which  was  to 
hire  two  men  to  hold  a  squaw  whom  he  had  repeat - 

\^  edly  failed  to  violate  alone.  How  long  will  it  take  to 
prove  to  white  squaws  that  "men  are  women's  protec- 

/tors,"  and  to  dark  squaws  that  the  whites  are  a  noble 
.race  sent  by  a  great  government  to  "civilize  them." 

How  many  prayers  will  it  take  to  wash  the  soul  of 
social  evils  gathered  up  in  earth  life  ?    With  many 


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gathered  up  in  ignorance  of  their  ■permanence^  but 
gathered  for  eternity. 

We  have  said  many  times  in  our  lectures  that 
much  of  the  faihire  to  do  justly  to  woman  was  more 
£1  misfortune  than  a  fault,  because  man  does  not  un- 
derstand woman,  and  never  will  while  there  is  one 
iota  of  barbarism  relics  over  woman,  preventing 
the  largest  freedom  in  thought  and  act.  Imperfect 
laws  must  ever  exist  until  there  is  perfect  freedom 
for  all  the  governed  to  make  full  statements  regard- 
ing cause  and  effect  in  thousands  of  matters  that 
men  have  no  conception  of,  and  never  have  even 
thought  deeply  enough  to  think  it  possible  that  there 
is  a  side  beyond  man's  possible  comprehension. 

Even  as  late  as  1787,  the  subject  was  discussed  re- 
garding the  complete  evidence  of  rape. 

The  thought  never  occured  to  men  judges  or  juries 
that  a  child  or  even  a  matured  girl  was  ignorant  \ 
of  what  an  '^emission"  was,  that  she  must  swear  to  / 
in  order  to  prove  rape. 

The  common  law  would  not  take  penetration  as 
sufficient  evidence  of  rape,  until  the  eyes  of  men 
were  opened  by  the  testimony  of  a  woman  who  had 
borne  several  children  that  "she  could  not  swear  that  / 
emission  had  ever  taken  place." 

(Forcible  penetration  whether  in  marriage  rapes  \ 
or  in  any  other,  at  any  time,  more  frequently  than  ) 
otherwise,  causes  more  or  less  hemorrhage.    In  any^ 


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UNMASKED. 


/ ,  V  case  the  vagina  seeks  to  protect  itself  from  the  injury 
of  friction  by  lubricating  with  the  natural  secretions^ 
if  possible,  but  if  not  able  to  do  so  then  it  is  assisted 

^2- ,  \  by  help  from  the  uterus  in  an  ill-timed  menstrual 
discharge.) 

There  were  no  women  on  the  dignified  benches  nor 
in  the  ignorant  boxes,  for  the  age  was  not  blessed  by 
Justice  Esther  Morriss,  Lawyer  Belva  A.  Lockwood, 
Jurymen  Mrs.  Amelia  B.  Post  and  Mrs.  Editor  Hay- 
ford,  and  a  Law  Journalist,  Mira  Bradwell. 

Forced  contact  of  the  genital  organs  should  be 
met  with  the  severest  penalities  of  rape,  since  such 
an  act  is  but  premonitory  to  and  luith  carnal  inten- 
tions, and  is  prevented  only  by  some  circumstances 
connected  with  the  case,  such  as  being  frightened  by 
other  parties  appearing,  or  impossibility  of  penetra- 
tion without  serious  results,  etc,  etc. 

Infants  but  two  and  three  years  of  age  are  often 
raped,  by  men  of  all  ages,  not  only  for  present  grati- 
fication, but  to  familiarize  girls  of  immature  ages 
;  with  carnal  matters,  and  to  excite,  so  that  seduction 
may  be  easy  in  future.  We  could  mention  many  in- 
stances of  this  kind  of  outrage,  but  one  will  suffice. 

A  case  occurred  in  New  Orleans,  eight  years  since^ 
where  a  young  man  of  nineteen  years  of  age  took 
\,   his  employer's  little  daughter  of  three  years  and 
gave  her  venereal  disease.   The  attending  doctor  gave 
the  author  a  history  of  the  treatment  of  the  case  with 


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the  minute  vagina  and  urethra  that  made  treatment 
so  difficult  and  so  uncertain  regarding  her  future  con- 
dition. 

The  only  just  way  to  deal  with  a  man  guilty  of  \ 
irape  is  to  castrate  him,  for  a  man  who  has  once  been 
guilty  in  the  face  of  all  the  influences  against  what 
is  worse  than  murder,  a  term  in  prison  will  not  make 
respectable. 

The  time  is  coming  when  a  respectable  lawyer 
will  not  defend  such  a  man  for  filthy  lucre — he  or 
she  will  not  draw  up  every  point  of  law  and  twist 
it  so  as  to  defeat  justice. 

It  is  a  lamentable  fact  that  nearly  every  case  of 
rape,  gives  a  ruined  victim  to  the  world,  for  the  vile 
magnetism  that  is  imparted  by  the  fiend,  is  so  infused 
in  the  system  of  the  victim  that  vice  of  the  various 
grades  is  irresistible,  (see  the  Language  of  the 
ITerves.)  Let  judges  and  attorneys  hereafter  look 
upon  and  talk  up  to  juries  the  metaphysical  injuries 
as  no  courts  have  ever  heard  before — let  no  lawyer 
plead  an  after  life  of  an  injured  girl  as  a  reason  why 
there  should  be  no  verdict  as-ainst  him. 

o 

So  long  as  children  are  begotten  by  force,  so  long 
as  boys  have  the  example  that  physical  strength  shall 
rule  over  women  of  any  age  or  under  any  circum- 
stances in  life,  will  the  outrage  of  rape  be  commit- 
ted. 

More  children  are  begotten  in  marital  rapes  than 


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ill  any  other  way.  If  the  ovum  is  in  a  proper  con- 
dition and  is  met  by  the  spermatozoa  conception  must 
result,  for  the  laws  of  conception  cannot  be  contro- 
verted by  anger  or  hatred  on  one  side  and  outraged 
womanhood  on  the  other. 

The  ordinary  dress  of  women  of  all  ages  makes 
the  facilities  for  rapes  complete,  and  until  the  moral 
reform  undersuits,  and  indeed  the  whole  reform 
dress  is  worn,  the  best  of  girls  and  even  women  will 
^be  raped  by  certain  classes  of  men. 

The  first  step  towards  making  the  world  better 
morally,  is  comprehended  in  not  only  a  full  knowl- 
edo-e  of  the  effects  of  vice  as  seen  in  the  Lano:uao:e 
of  the  I^erves,  but  in  all  womanhood  being  properly 
protected  by  dress  in  its  best  style. 

The  ordinary  dress  of  woman  by  debilitating  her 
body  causes  her  mind  to  be  also  weakened.  Woman 
is,  if  not  in  absolute  misery  from  dress,  so  uncomfortable 
that  she  cannot  think  gravely 'and  deeply.  If  a  man 
has  but  a  sliver  in  his  finger,  he  cannot  write  a  fine 
article  or  do  himself  justice  in  a  speech.  That  is  as 
nothing  compared  with  the  enervating  eftects  and 
miseries  of  woman  caused  by  dress. 

In  order  to  have  a  sound  moralist,  one  able  to  cope 
with  life  as  it  is  and  leave  pure  examples  as  well 
;as  precepts,  the  dress  question  is  of  ^practicable  import- 
.ance. 

How  much  of  immorality  is  directly  chargeable 


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to  woman's  dress,  we  cannot  pretend  to  elaborate  in 
this  work.    This  much  we  will  affirm,  that  there 
wall  be  scarcely  any  perceptible  difterence  in  the  tone 
of  morals — difference  for  the  better,  until  both  im- 
mature and  mature  woman  is  protected  by  dress,  as 
110  w^omen  are  who  dress  in  the  ordinary  styles.  This 
us  so  well  known  that  it  needs  no  mention,  only  to 
remind  the  better  class  of  men,  that  while  there  are 
all  around  us  women  dressed  so  that  the  facilities  of  \  - 
vice  are  perfect,  we  can  expect  nothing  better  than  I  ^ 
street  rapes  occasionally  and  parlor  rapes  without  ^ 
number. 

AVe  cannot  too  strongly  impress  upon  the  fathers 
of  daughters  their  duty  in  seeing  that  their  little 
girls  are  instructed  in  regard  to  the  certainty  of  \  y 
protecting  themselves  against  rapes,  by  grabbing  j 
.\the  testicles.    So  seiisative  are  they  that  a  man  is  at 
once  weakened  and  made  powerless  to  injure  woman, 

A  case  occured  in  Pennsylvania,  where  a  young 
girl  learned  that  her  seducer  was  about  to  marry. 
When  she  saw  him  again  he  renewed  his  immoral 
attentions  to  her  with  a  response  from  her  hands  in 
the  shape  of  actually  fracturing  the  muscles  of  the 
penis.  The  best  of  medical  attention  was  procured 
but  he  was  forever  crippled  and  disabled,  but  the 
injury  to  the  testicles  is  as  effective  a  protection  and 
much  easier.  And  when  women  generally  under- 
stand their  power  of  protection,  by  knowing  how 


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sensitive  is  the  scrotum,  rapes  will  be  fewer.  But 
sexual  wrongs  will  not  cease  until  the  reform  dress 

^    becomes  general.    The  underclothes  are  so  construc- 

^  ted  that  a  rape  would  be  impossible. 

Reform  Underdress. 

The  undersuits  are  perfect  covering  from  head  to 
feet.  They  are  so  arranged  as  to  be  a  perfect  pro- 
tection. They  are  economical  as  regards  amount 
of  cloth  and  washing.  One  suit  comprising  drawers,, 
chemise  and  cuffs.  The  stockings  are  drawn  over 
the  drawers,  doing  away  with  the  necessity  for  any 
devices  to  hold  up  the  stockings,  l^othing  has  been 
invented  in  the  shape  of  stockings  suspenders  that 
are  not  injurious  in  some  way.  It  will  be  readily 
seen  that  there  are  no  bands  around  the  waist  as  is 
the  case  where  drawers  are  worn  in  the  usual  way. 
No  one's  hips  can  support  drawers  or  petticoat  bands 
w^ithout  injury  to  the  kidneys  and  bladder  in  men, 
and  to  those  organs  in  woman,  besides  the  more 
serious  effect  of  a  pressure  upon  the  internal  organs 
of  woman.  They  are  directly  over  the  fallopian 
tubes,  ovaries  and  top  of  the  uterus  injuring  by  in- 
flaming, as  well  as  prolapsing. 

All  kinds  and  classes  of  evils  show  their  own 
legitimate  effects  in  a  diversity  of  ways,  unex- 
pected as  well  as  anticipated,  for  no  evil  stops 
with  a  sinde  result.    To  such  an  extent  is  this  true,. 


Refornv  Fnder  stzzZ. 


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SOCIAL  EVIL. 


98 


that  the  most  logical  and  metaphysical  are  filled 
with  surprises  regarding  what  were  yesterday  casual 
discoveries,  and  reliable  evolutions  of  thought,  and 
with  expectations  regarding  what  is  to-day  ac- 
knowledged to  be  buried  as  "  unknowables."  Years 
and  ages  elapsed  before  some  features  of  the  mighty 
predictions  in  regard  to  ''the  sins  of  the  parents 
being  visited  upon  children's  children,"  were  seen 
in  their  unmistakable  truths,  as  antenatal  results. 
But  no  mind  can  fully  compass  this  prediction  of 
the  seers,  or  rather  the  philosophical  metaphysi- 
cians of  the  past.  Even  to-day  but  few  rush  back 
to  causes  for  lessons  of  prevention  but  blindly  walk 
forth  with  their  sophistry  regarding  cures,  in  the 
shape  of  prisons,  asylums,  almshouses,  midnight 
meetings  and  reform  schools. 

An  opportunity  is  afibrded  to  illustrate  the  deep- 
rooted,  and  wide-branched  antenatal  evils  both  in 
China  and  America,  since  a  hundred-thousand 
Chinese  have  come  to  our  Western  shores.  Only 
about  ten  thousand  of  these  are  women.  Fashion  in 
China  has  made  women  helpless,  and  therefore  crip- 
pled their  morals  by  crippling  their  feet,  and  unfit- 
ting them  to  perform  the  active  duties  of  life. 

And  so  the  home  work  is  done  by  men.  The 
outrageous  crippling  of  women  all  over  by  dress,  un- 
fitting all  American  women  for  the  duties  of  life, 
both  among  the  rich  and  the  servant  classes,  has 


94 


UNMASKED. 


made  it  imperative  that  men  should  take  the  places 
of  house  servants  and  maids  of  all  work.  This  de- 
mand is  supplied  by  the  Chinamen.  They  perform 
all  the  household  duties  the  same  as  a  girl  would  do^ 
and  is  it  at  all  surprising  that,  being  so  constantly 
with  women  and  girls  of  the  family,  (men  with  all 
the  passions  of  men  without  much  culture  of  brain) 
is  it,  v/e  repeat,  surprising  that  with  only  one  China 
woman  in  the  country  to  nine  Chinamen,  that  such 
men  should  by  both  foul  and  fair  means  improve 
sexual  opportunities,  since  a  large  number  of  even 
this  small  number  of  China  w^omen  are  used  ex- 
clusively by  American  men?  And  these  men,  the 
husbands  and  fathers  of  their  employers. 
.  The  American  women  before  and  since  their  resi- 
dence in  the  far  West,  found  it  impossible  to  employ 
white  girl  labor  w^ithout  their  husbands  and  sons 
having  sexual  commerce  with  them,  and  now  the  tables 
are  unexpectedly  turned,  and  husbands  and  fathers 
can  no  longer  expect  purity  at  home,  except  wdiere- 
it  is  from  intelligence  and  not  from  ignorance  and  pro- 
tective exclusion.  Men's  waves  all  over  the  country 
are  ripe  for  miything  since  their  husbands,  through  the 
language  of  the  nerve^^  and  in  so  many  ways  have 
proved  their  own  course  in  life,  and  unwittingly  paved 
the  way  for  their  waives  and  daughters  to  walk  there- 
in. 

As  true  as  the  needle  points  to  the  pole,  is  the  con- 


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dition  of  the  women  of  the  country  ebbing  with  • 
billow  swiftness  to  the  heartless  shoals  of  sexual  / 
license. 

Woman's  Dress. 

The  question  of  dress  and  the  social  evil  is  so  great 
that  we  can  but  mention  the  same  in  this  work. 
We  quote  from  men  and  women  as  follows : 

Here  I  wish  to  call  attention  to  another  point  of 
practical  utility — the  relation  of  dress  to  prostitu-- 
tion.  Long  ago  I  observed  that  in  peasant  life, 
where  dress  Avas  loose  and  simple,  illegal  prostitu- 
tion was  nearly  unknovrn.  In  cities,  where  cost  in 
cut  and  quality  of  dress  are  extreme,  the  greatest 
proportion  of  prostitutes  to  the  whole  population  is 
found.  Investigation  has  even  proven  that  the  ex- 
cess of  costume  and  adornment  exhibited  is  matched, 
by  excess  proportionate  in  social  vice  and  intemper- 
ance generally.  It  is  found  that  of  abandoned 
women  not  over  one  in  tvrenty  are  so  from  choice,  not 
over  one-fifth  from  real  necessity,  and  the  majority  . 
are  so  from  a  desire  to  dress  as  richly  as  the  wealthy 
when  their  earnings  are  insufhcient.  .Dress  and  the 
fatigue  of  laboring  in  its  perplexities  is  the  first  in- 
ducement. 

T.  W.  Organ,  M.  D., 
Ohio. 

That  woman  should  be  the  victim  to  customs  so 
demoralizing  and  destructive  to  the  highest  good  of 
all  is  the  misfortune  of  her  sex,  the  curse  of  the  race. 
How  intelligent  aspiring  women  can  consent  to 


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UNMASKED. 


drape  themselves  in  costumes  that  are  a  badge  of 
servitude  and  an  emblem  of  imbecility  is  a  problem 
unsolved.  To  philanthropic  minds,  no  subjects 
seeking  the  general  welfare  appeals  for  aid  with  more 
reason  than  this  of  substituting  comfort  and  freedom 
for  torture  and  tyranny  in  dress. 

Considering  how  it  cripples  the  physical  and 
dwarfs  the  mental  faculties,  how  aesthetic  culture 
and  soul  aspiration  are  defeated,  we  find  pressing 
incentives  to  earnest  effort  for  its  overthrow. 

Brave  souls  with  persistent  energy  consecrate  their 
lives  to  the  service  of  humanity. 

S.  L.  0.  Allen, 

South  IsTewbury,  Ohio. 

I  sympathize  with  all  who  cry  and  sigh  for  de- 
liverance from  the  fickle  yet  persistent  goddess — 
Fashion,  who  subjugates  nearly  all  the  women  of 
our  land.  It  astonishes  me  that  they  so  easily  yield, 
when  their  freedom  needs  but  general  revolt.  How 
;  can  a  man  think  his  daughter  equal  to  his  son  when 
\  she  finds  satisfaction  in  bonnets,  sleeves  and  skirts 
that  forbid  achievements,  and  he  is  intent  on  vast 
interests  ? 

\  Women  have  always  been  slaves,  and  are,  if  not 
wholly  on  the  chattel  principle,  they  consent  to  be  so 
shackled  and  feebled  by  fashion,  that  the  few  who 
know  what  they  want  have  not  mind-force  to  put  on 
the  means  of  jpower^  the  emblems  of  liberty^  and  take 
both  as  fast  as  able. 

Of  all  the  difiiculties  with  which  she  now  contends, 
none  is  more  serious  in  direct  and  remote  bearings 
than  the  dress  imposes.  The  great  thing  in  the 
way  of  deliverance  is  that  fashion  makes  her  dress 


ORGANS  OF  CHEST,  ABDOMEN  AND  PELVIS. 

1.  Lungs. 

2.  Heart. 

3.  Diaphragm. 

4.  Spleen. 

5.  Stomach  and  part  of  liver. 

6.  Intestines. 
*7.  Uterus. 

8.  Vagina. 

9.  Bladder. 

10.  Anus. 

11.  Spine. 

The  first  principle  to  be  observed  in  dress,  is  perfect 
freedom  of  motion  for  every  muscle.    There  can  be  no 
,  restraints  without  injury,  not  only  to  the  particular  part, 
\  but  to  every  part,  through  the  law  of  sympathy. 

There  should  be  such  an  equal  distribution  of  cloth- 
%  ing,  that  the  blood  may  circulate  freely.  This  cannot 
be  the  case  without  an  equal  temperature,  for  the  blood 
is  expelled  by  cold  to  respond  to  the  invitation  of  heat. 
This  is  also  true  regarding  the  circulation  of  the  nervo_ 
magnetic  vital  fluid,  which  is  expended  so  largely  in 
transporting  the  ordinary  clothing  of  women. 

The  man  who  loads  his  beast  of  burden  with  utterly 
useless  gearing,  would  be  considered  idiotic  or  insane  ; 
but  what  shall  we  say  of  him  who  oppresses  woman  be- 
cause she  relieves  herself  of  utterly  useless  weights  and 
locomotion  obstructors  ? 


Orgcows  of  CJzest, 


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SOCIAL  EVIL.  97 

not  onl}'  the  symbol  of  her  sex,  but  of  inferiority 
because  of  sex.  I  care  not  so  much  that  sex  be  shown 
by  her  dress,  as  that  it  thereby  compels  her  to  suffer 
disadvantage  in  the  use  of  her  powers. 

J.  C.  Jackson,  M.  D., 

Dansville,  X.  Y. 

Would  that  I  could  encourage  weak,  deluded 
women  to  be  true  to  themselves,  abandon  slavery 
to  fashion,  and  gain  strength  to  fulfil  life's  duties 
joyously! 

Mrs.  S.  E.  Michener, 

California. 

Men  and  women  while  acknowledging  the  ravages 
that  fashion  makes  on  health,  insist  that  the  style  we 
substitute  must  be  beautiful,  and  that  garments  cloth- 
ing the  legs  separately  are  homely  and  unattractive, 
though  exceedingly  convenient.  They  do  not  reject 
the  most  deforming  device  of  fashion.  The  difficulty 
is  plainly  here :  long  habit  and  transmitted  tendency 
have  so  accustomed  the  mind  to  follow  the  frequent 
changes  of  fashion  that  it  readily  assumes  that  the 
last  style  is  preferable,  and  accepting  without  com- 
paring and  choosing  for  itself,  individuality  is  silenced 
and  weakened,  and  only  the  false  notion  that  drapery 
alone  is  feminine,  speaks  intaste.  Conceding  the  point 
of  a  general  chain  of  consistency,  all  that  is  required 
to  make  a  natural  dress  beautiful  is  use.  If  long  use 
can  make  the  caricatures  that  licentiousness  and 
avarice  have  palmed  on  the  ages  appear  beautiful, 
have  no  fears  that  something  comforting,  strength- 
ening, liberating  and  rejoicing  will  not  prove  beauti- 
fying. 


^8 


UNMASKED. 


While  bodies  are  cached  in  the  petticoat  badge  of 
dependence  and  inferiority,  minds  and  souls  are  sub- 
ject to  evil,  psychologizing  wills  and  cannot  com- 
mand themselves ;  whereas  crowns  of  strength,  joy 
and  sufficiency,  with  choice  of  jjlace  in  the  exercise 
of  power  await  the  Unbound  Woman. 

Fearing  to  put  forth  endeavors  because  all  cannot 
see  and  approve  the  purpose  involved,  because  chil- 
dren accustomed  to  wading  cannot  appreciate  walk- 
ing, would  be  cowardice  withering  to  my  spirit. 

Mary  E.  Tillottson, 

Vineland,  ^s".  J. 

Woman  having  no  proper  physical  training  or 
scientific  advantages,  no  highly  remunerative  em- 
ployment or  official  trust,  they  are,  aS  a  rule,  untaught, 
unskilled,  unenterprising ;  hence  have  thought  more 
of  adorning  the  body  than  of  high  culture.    To  cap- 

Mtivate  the  superior  sex,  win  approval  and  companion- 
ship, has  seemed  the  aim,  dress  the  means. 

Fashion  and  goods  speculators  see  their  chance  and 
make  both  dupes  and  fortunes  by  millions,  reckless 
of  the  ruin.  Deploring  the  grave  dilemma,  I  gladly 
hail  every  earnest  movement  among  women,  however 
difficult,  to  correct  the  bad  taste,  pernicious  example 
and  foolish  stupidity  seen  in  the  wasteful  profusion 
and  absolute  deformity  of  fashion.  I  would  encour- 
age the  institution  of  a  style  for  women,  combining 
neatness,  propriety,  artistic  skill,  with  entire  freedom 
of  choice  and  in  accordance  with  the  laws  of  health. 

William  L.  Garrison, 

Boston^  Mass. 


SOCIAL  EVIL. 


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"My  motto  in  dress  is  Utility,  Comfort,  Economy."' 

LUCRETIA  MOTT, 

Philadelphia. 

I  think  the  tyranny  of  fashion  in  dress  the  great- 
est obstacles  to  reform. 

C.  A.  Bartoll, 

Boston,  Mass. 

I  feel  anxious  that  this  dress  movement,  so  well 
begun,  should  be  carried  out  by  American  women, 
on  American  soiL 

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Popular  opinion  ever  opposes  reforms,  and  makes 
them  move  like  ships  against  head- winds. 

A.  B.  Bradford, 

Enon  Valley,  Pa. 

In  view  of  the  immense  importance  of  rightly  re- 
lating clothing  to  the  law  controlling  these  precious 
living  temples,  no  more  sacred  theme  can  claim  our 
care.  Looking  on  humanity  to-day,  the  most  strik- 
ing abuse  of  law  is  apparent  in  the  burdeus  dragged 
by  women  in  lieu  of  legitimate  dress.  A  thorough, 
radical  change  in  their  style  becomes  at  once  a  ne- 
cessity. 

William  S.  Flanders, 

Corn vi lie,  Me. 

Leaden  apathy  or  racking  pain  is  far  nearer  the 
rule  with  us  than  the  exception.  It  needs  no  argu- 
ment to  convince  thoughtful  observers  that  the  most 
prolific  cause  of  this  is  the  pernicious  moles  of  pre- 
vailing dress. 

J.  Chase, 

Vineland,  K  J. 


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The  woman  whose  dress  shows  she  is  human  proves 
she  is  worthy  of  equity. 

Women  cannot  grasp  and  shape  their  destiny  till 
done  through  physical  freedom,  till  feet  are  free  as 
hands,  legs  as  free  as  arms. 

J.  Treat, 

New  York. 

The  styles  of  the  civilized  world,  so  called  by  the 
monster  monarch,  fickle  fashion,  are  irrational  life- 
destroying,  mind-belittling,  brain-heating,  waist-com- 
pressing, ankle-wrenching,  feet-pinching,  back-break- 
ing, lust-engendering,  child  and  mother-murdering, 
race-degrading. 

"Women  should  see  that  asking  rights  is  useless  till 
they  take  the  right  to  clothe  themselves  at  least  as 
comfortably  as  men. 

J.  M.  Allen, 

Massachusetts. 

Preaching  freedom  in  Fetters. 

What  can  be  said  of  the  many  woman  speakers  ad- 
vocating liberty,  equality,  spiritual  elevation  and 
moral  reformation,  yet  pleading,  with  bodies  legs  and 
feet  almost  helplessly  hampered  ?  I  view  them  with 
a  sickening  sense,  pity  them  from  the  deeps  of  a 
sad  soul  and  exclaim,  poor,  sick  sisters  !  The  most 
that  you  are  doing  is  to  burlesque  your  weak,  cow- 
ard selves  1  You  fall  before  a  Juggernaut  that  has 
no  palliating  merit !  What  is  life  without  health  ? 
What  value  has  freedom  without  power  to  use  it  ? 

S.  Mitchell, 

Yineland,  N.  J. 


V 

RETROYERSION  OF  THE  UTERUS. 

1.  Spine. 

2.  Intestines. 

3.  Bladder. 

4.  Retroverted  Uterus. 

5.  Yagina. 

6.  Rectum. 
Y.  Urethra. 

In  retroversion  the  uterus  (4)  presses  against  the  iec- 
i  turn  (6),  preventing  the  feces  from  reaching  ^the  anus. 
I  While  the  top  of  the  uterus  presses  against  the  rectum 
(6),  the  osuteri  presses  against  the  bladder  (3)  and  the 
;  intestines  (2)  fall  upon  the  uterus  and  all  of  its  attach- 
ments. In  this  plate,  in  anteversion,  will  be  seen  the 
abnormal  position  of  the  pelvic  organs  of  woman.  Or- 
gans of  chest,  &c.,  is  the  normal  condition,  as  demon- 
strated by  Berta  Yon  Hillern's  power  to  walk.  Were 
a  corsetted,  long  dressed  woman  to  attempt  such  physical 
culture,  worse  abnormal  conditions  just  mentioned  would 
be  the  result,  bad  as  are  nearly  all  women  at  present 


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SOCIAL  EVIL. 


101 


When  a  dress  prevails  that  gives  full  scope  to  all 
bodily  powers,  long  depressed  womanhood  may  reach 
normal  endowment. 

A.  E.  Davis, 

Worcester,  Mass. 

Reformers  aiming  at  a  style  to  serve  health  and  all 
the  duties  and  high  attainments  of  our  manifold  ca- 
pacities are  right,  and  should  be  abetted  by  all  lovers 
of  human  welfare. 

J.  M.  Spear, 

Philadelphia. 

To  enlightened  taste  that  is  truly  beautiful  which  is 
in  harmony  with  law  and  immutable  order.  What- 
ever dwarfs  human  powers  comes  of  ignorance,  tends 
to  weakness  and  woe,  and  is  deformity. 

D.  M.  Allen, 

South  ^ewburg,  Ohio. 

I  cannot  express  my  admiration  of  woman's  re- 
formed dress. 

E.  M.  Howard, 
Ohio. 

It  is  a  sorry  sight  to  see  a  specimen  of  elaborately 
dressed  frailty,  and  know  that  in  those  lovely  shoes 
are  comfortless  feet,  in  that  coil  of  beautiful  hair  an 
aching  head,  and  under  exquisite  folds  and  puffs  all 
manner  of  pads,  pains  and  miseries. 

Two  things  seem  needed  to  remedy  abuses  in  dress. 
First  and  best,  is  independence  in  women.  ^ 

A  professional  man  whose  wife  wishes  to  wear  a 
short  dress  fears  it  would  compromise  him  in  his  pro- 
fession.   He  makes  her  carry  his  fortune  on  her  hips. 


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A  liiisbancl  would  look  better  saying,  "my  dear,  dress 
comfortably  if  you  can. 

Rev.  S.  C.  Beach, 

Norton,  Mass. 

How  can  those  who  ever  call  for  the  freedom  they 
have  not  persist  in  trampling  on  the  more  important 
rights  they  possess?  Their  style  of  dress  embar- 
rasses every  motion,  and  makes  a  most  aggravated 
slave  of  the  ever-worried  body,  and  through  that  the 
never  free  or  full-grow^n  mind.  Healthful  dress  can- 
not w^ell  be  unbecoming.  Tight  waists,  draggling 
skirts,  half-clothed  legs,  for  a  business  woman,  are 
worse  than  ludicrous — are  suicidal. 

S.  L.  TiBBALS, 

Manchester,  Ya. 

My  dress  is  what  is  known  as  the  American  Cos- 
tume. I  have  no  thought  of  returning  to  the  slavery 
and  corruption  of  Fashion,  but  do  expect  to  change 
my  style  when  finding  what  is  better.  I  have 
traveled  much,  and  know  the  slights,  cold  shoulders, 
jeers,  etc.,  that  the  ill-bred  ofter. 

L.  F.  Stegman, 

Allegan,  Mich. 

Merciless  Fashion  annually  sacrifices  millions  of 
human  beings  on  its  murderous  altar.  A  sound  mind 
in  a  soimd  body,  a  free  mind  in  a  free  body,  mean 
something  that  ought  to  open  women's  eyes  to  the 
duties  they  owe  themselves.  Grirls  study  physiol- 
ogy and  are  not  taught  to  apply  its  lore  or  regard  its 
many  warnings.    Their  lives  pay  the  penalty. 

J.  H.  Cook, 

Columbus,  Kan. 


SOCIAL  EVIL. 


103 


The  varied  benefits  and  constant  comforts  of  my 
dress  are  so  great  that  no  temptation  to  retnrn  to 
swaddhng  clothes  has  assailed  me.  And  yet  mider- 
lying  this  important  change  is  a  principle  that  should 
prompt  us  to  persevere,  if  selfish  aids  should  prove, 
as  some  have  said,  not  compensator}^  Abolishing 
the  servile  imitation  of  degrading  customs,  especially 
in  dress,  is  among  earth's  imperative  duties. 
Emeline  a.  Prescott, 

N"orth  Vassalboro',  Maine. 

Experience  teaches  me  that  a  woman  may  wear  the 
costume  and  gain  respect  by  simply  respecting  her- 
self. 

C.  Fanny  Allyn, 

Stoneham,  Mass. 

I  have  made  my  own  way  in  the  world.  Have 
succeeded  in  the  vocations  of  teacher,  merchant  and 
farmer ;  traveled  from  Maine  to  Florida  ;  met  all 
shades  of  treatment,  from  profound  respect  and  high 
encomium  to  low  shouts  of  rabbles,  and  the  hiss  of 
well-dressed  bipeds.  Think  I  have  never  talked  with 
a  stranger  who  was  prejudiced  against  the  dress 
without  making  the  path  easier  for  the  next  one  he 
may  meet  in  the  American  Costume.  Through  all 
opposition  the  personal  benefits  of  the  reform  have 
compensated ;  but  had  it  been  mainly  sacrifice,  the 
thought  of  working  for  the  amelioration  of  woman 
and  the  elevation  of  humanity  would  still  have  been 
the  beacon-star  guiding  me  on  amid  all  discourage- 
ments. 

S.  P.  Fowler, 

Vineland,  K.  J. 


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The  sympathies  of  my  soul  are  with  those  laboring 
to  convince  weak  women  that  they  need  not  obey  life- 
torturing  fashion. 

F.  E.  Eeece, 

Minnesota. 

We  should  have  liberty  to  experiment  with  the 
widest  range  of  garments,  and  use  any  that  are 
adapted  to  our  taste,  needs  and  employments,  without 
private  or  public  molestation.  Until  this  can  be 
done  all  discussions  on  the  relative  capacity  of  men 
and  women  are  ill-timed  and  in  bad  taste. 

Olivia  Shepherd, 

Vineland,  IsT.  J. 

Yielding  to  usage  and  prejudice  lulls  conscience, 
and  fearing  gossip  checks  the  course  of  knowledge. 
"Woman  aspires  to  high  culture  and  pursuits,  and 
seems  not  to  know  her  slavery  to  dress  forbids  at- 
tainment. 

L.  E.  Jackson,  M.  D., 

Dansville,  New  York. 

The  laws  of  health,  beauty,  fitness,  economy,  con- 
venience, comfort  and  decency  are  violated  in  most  of 
women's  present  styles. 

All  know  what  is  threatened  if  we  call  our  brother 
a  fool ;  but  T  call  him  who  weds  a  fashionable  woman 
in  these  times  a  fool,  and  risk  consequences.  His 
risk  must  surely  be  great  as  mine.  Saying  less,  I 
should  be  unworthy  to  subscribe, — Friend  of  Hu- 
manity. 

♦  P.  PiLLSBURY, 

Concord,  N.  H. 


Uteri? le  Or^i^ans. 


SOCIAL  EVIL. 


105 


For  twenty -five  years  I  have  been  teaching  medi- 
cal classes  to  trace  most  of  society's  maladies,  es- 
pecially those  of  women,  to  the  dress  that  devitalizes 
the  whole  system,  hence  deteriorates  the  offspring, 
early  made  orphans.  It  has  long  been  my  custom  to 
classify  the  four  leading  curses  of  civilization  thus : 
1st,  alchol ;  2d,  tobacco  ;  3d,  drugs  ;  4th,  fashion.  But 
the  more  familiar  the  subject  becomes,  the  more  I 
see  of  incurable  cases, — traceable  to  corsets  and  drag- 
gling skirts,  meretricious  head-gear,  and  leg-beating 
flounces, — the  surer  I  come  to  reverse  the  order  and 
place  fashions  in  dress  at  the  head  of  the  horrid 
category.  No  woman,  dressed  fashionably,  can 
breath  or  walk  normally.  Without  free  respiration 
no  pure  blood  flows,  giving  firm  muscle  to  act  and  ' 
vigorous  brain  to  think  and  feel.  Just  to  the  extent^^ 
that  she  constricts  the  lungs,  loads  the  hips,  oppres-  ; 
ses  the  head,  and  burdens  the  limbs,  she  demoralizes 
her  whole  nature,  becomes  morbid,  demented,  pa- 
ralyzed and  perverse.  I  see  no  hope  of  her  attaining 
relief  or  higher  conditions  of  any  kind  till  ceasing 
to  display  in  costume  the  badges  of  self-imposed  de- 
gradation, and  banishing  the  scare-crow  whim  that 
natural,  hygienic  dress  is  unwomanly,  takes  the  > 
free  use  of  lungs,  ribs,  legs  and  feet. 

R.  t.  Trall,  M.  D. 

Florence,  New  Jersey. 

Fashionable  attire  is  ruinous  to  the  sexual  organs  ^ 
of  women. 

Dr.  Sarah  B.  Chase, 

New  York  City. 


If  space  permitted,  we  could  make  many  thousands 


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.of  quotations,  but  these  could  not  all  speak  so  em- 
phatically as  the  lives  of  such  dress  reformers  as  Dr. 
Susan  Way  Dodds,  St.  Louis,  Mo. ;  Dr.  Lydia  Sayer 
Hasbrouck,  Middletown,  i^".  Y. :  Dr.  Lydia  A.  Strow- 
bridge,  Cortland,  N".  Y.  ;  Dr.  Ellen  Baird  Ilarman, 
^'iorence,  iT.  J.,  and  other  physicians  who  are  practi- 
cal exponants  of  the  vital  principals  so  important  to 
over-burdened  women. 

The  doctor,  whether  man  or  woman,  who  does  not 
advocate  a  reform  costume  for  woman,  clearly  shows 
an  ignorance  of  the  causes  of  diseases  and  displace- 
ment in  woman,  not  only,  but  fails  to  comprehend 
one  of  the  chief  causes  of  the  deaths  of  100,000  in- 
fants annually,  the  imbecility  and  diseases  of  boys  as 
well  as  girls,  besides  the  tendancy  to  insanity,  and  a 
long  train  of  evils  that  one  with  large  causality  and 
metaphysical  acumen  is  appalled  at  beholding. 

Such  an  array  of  evils  grow  out  of  woman's  ever 
changing,  extravagant,  licentious,  debilitating,  dis- 
easing, immoral  doll-baby  dress,  that  fashion  imposes 
upon  women,  that  make  the  great  mass  of  them  per- 
fect monomaniacs  on  dress,  that  appalls  a  practical 
exampler  of  modest,  useful, economical,  moral, health- 
ful, common-sense  costume. 

Men  who  encourage  this  and  women  who  talk 
.about  "reform  schools"  or  reforms  of  any  kind  so 
•arrayed  and  gewgawed,  had  better  repeat  the  words 
of  Edward  Faxton  until  they  can  fully  understand 


SOCIAL  EVIL. 


them:  '-''Tliey  loho  would,  reform  others^  must  first  re- 
form themselves.'^ 

These  diamond  words  are  utterances  so  deep  and 
-comprehensive  that  those  who  do  not  heed  them,  are 
sure  to  find  themselves  in  a  position  too  ridiculous  for 
common  pity.  But  a  little  time  will  elapse  before 
the  world  will  see  this  truth  in  all  its  clearness. 

Refoj:ms  of  all  kinds  are  so  linked  and  interwo- 
/^Ten  that  they  must  progress  together;  but  in  or- 
Vder  to  be  permanent  they  must  have  the  foundations 
secure.  Such  foundations  are  in  health  of  body  and 
mind,  and  the  ordinary  costume  of  ivomen  disease  both, 
Isot  only  do  they  have  this  effect  on  women  and 
their  children,  both  girls  and  boys,  but  husbands^ of 
such  wives  suffer  also. 

They  are  irritated  in  their  sexual  organs,  and  they 
seek  other  women  for  relief.  The  irritability  is  an 
effort  to  throw  off  impure  elements,  and  the  more 
the  remedy  in  either  variety  or  excuse  is  sought,  the 
harder  nature  labors  to  throw  off  the  deleterious 
elements  gathered  up,  producing  still  greater  irrita- 
bility that  is  mistaken  for  strength  of  passion. 

Every  means  is  devised  to  satisfy  this  morbid  state, 
and  with  shame  for  the  depravity  of  human  nature 
we  record  that  in  our  own  country  not  ordinary  men, 
but  so-called  gentlemen,  are  guilty  of  using  the  rectum 
of  their  wives.    This  is  for  the  double  purpose  of 


108  UNMASKED. 

I /getting  strong  muscular  contraction,  and  to  ]3revent 
conception. 

There  is  no  language  that  can  express  the  more 
than  barbarous  outrage  of  such  acts.    The  agony 
that  is  experienced  by  woman  until  the  sphincter  anii 
[  is  so  expanded  and  lacerated  that  it  has  lost  contrac- 
\  tile  power,  cannot  he  expressed.    Such  is  the  con- 
struction of  the  rectum  that  large  foeces  can,  without 
difficulty,  he  voided,  but  nothing  of  half  the  size 
can  be  introduced  without  extreme  agony,  not  only, 
but  after  the  inflammation  subsides  there  is  a  tender- 
ness and  uncomfortableness  besides  an  inability  to 
control  the  foecal  discharge,  necessitating  them  to 
-wear  a  protector  from  exposure.    They  cannot  sit 
down  without  being  in  misery.    Their  whole  nerve 
/  s^'Stem  suffers  from  this  most  cruel  tyranny.  Can- 
j  cer  of  the  bowels  finally  results.    But  the  men  are 
not  exempt  from  penalties  for  violation  of  law.  The 
/nearer  the  worn  out,  effete  matter  approaches  the 
I  exit,  the  more  poisonous  it  becomes  and  neither  sitz- 
t  baths  or  enema  can  cleans  the  parts  so  but  that  much 
remains  in  the  multitudinous  folds. 

This  filthiness  is  absorbed  by  man  and  produces  a 
.  depravity  that  he  cannot  throw  off,  besides  urethral 
?  stricture  caused  by  repulsion  to  the  filthy  unnatu- 
ralness  of  such  contact. 

The  bare  proposition  from  a  husband  to  a  wife  for 
(  such  a  relationship  ought  to  be  a  sufficient  cause  for 


PROLAPSUS  UTERI. 


1.  Spine. 

2.  Intestines. 

3.  Bladder. 

4.  Prolapsed  Uterus. 

The  uterus  (4)  is  frequently  prolapsed,  so  that  the 
whole  orgaii  is  outside  of  the  vagina.  The  illustration 
before  us  shows  that  it  is  as  nearly  prolapsed  as  possible 
and  not  be  outside  of  the  body.  The  intestines  (2)  are 
also  prolapsed.  We  have  had  a  case  where  a  portion  of 
the  same  were  outside  and  below  the  uterus. 

See  organs  of  chest,  figure  9,  that  the  bladder  is  nearly 
round  in  its  natural  condition.  The  shape  see  (3)  in  pro- 
lapsus uteri,  and  in  retroversion,  and  in  anteversion,  that 
other  organs  are  so  pressed  against  it  that  it  must  yield 
its  rotundity.  In  prolapsus  all  the  organs  of  the  pelvis 
are  displaced.  Few  know  that  the  ordinary  style  of 
woman's  dress  will  produce  this  and  all  other  weakness 
of  women  without  any  other  cause. 


SOCIAL  EVIL.  109 

divorce,  but  when  it  comes  to  compulsion,  imprison- 
ment for  life  ouo;ht  to  be  the  penalty. 

Astonishing  as  it  may  seem  to  women,  there  are 
many  men  who  actually  believe  that  no  rape  of  any 
kind  can  be  committed  on  women.  They  have  this 
idea  from  the  illustration  of  Queen  Elizabeth  of 
England,  who  would  not  sign  any  death  warrants 
because  she  believed  that  ever^^  woman  could  take 
€are  of  herself.  She  did  not  realize  in  her  protected 
position  how  brutal  men  would  dare  to  be,  and  how 
much  greater  was  man's  phyical  strength. 

Men  will  never  have  just  laws  until  women  physi-  x 
€ians  are  in  the  great  councils  of  the  nation. 

Nothing  hut  the  sternest  sense  of  duty  to  helpless  ^ 
loomen  could  impell  us  to  j^en  ichat  is  so  revolting  to 
every  sense  of  decent  humcmity  as  is  the  shameful  red- 
^  tal  of  outraged  decency  just  related.  Moral  courage  is 
carried  to  its  greatest  tension,  but  above  all  this  a 
whisper  of  encouragement  comes  as  we  w^rite  through 
blinding  tears,  what  we  have  been  long  agonizing 
over  the  necessity  for  writing,  and  struggling  to  get 
moral  courage  enough  to  carry  out  our  convictions, 
that  ignoring  evils  can  never  remedy  them.  The  illogi- 
cal and  surface  wise,  but  deeply  ignorant,  cannot  see 
the  necessity  for  arraying  the  evils  of  all  classes  be- 
fore the  broad  light  of  day,  and  disgusting  the  be- 
holders, little  realizing  that  there  is  no  effectual  way 
of  destroying  the  moths  of  corruption  that  eat  out 


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110  UNMASKED. 

all  grandeur  of  soul  in  the  dark  of  ignorance  and 
vice,  and  that  sunlight  of  facts  alone  can  do  so. 

We  place  evil  on  a  pedestal,  and  array  the  results 
around  it  and  behold  the  eftect. 

"We  call  forth  eternal  principles  and  calmly  discuss 
them.    If  silence  could  do  the  work,  all  Christendom 
could  not  open  our  mouth,  but  as  nothing  but  an 
expose  of  the  wrongs  to  woman  and  the  wrongs  to- 
pure  manhood  can  be  rightened  and  prevented,  all 
Christendom  can  not  close  our  mouth.    Every  wrong, 
/  no  matter  how  base,  has  advocates  attempting  to 
!  justify  the  same  not  only,  but  to  establish  it  as  a 
^  right.    It  matters  not  how  monstrous  it  may  be. 
/  But  of  all  the  iniquities  of  the  social  evil  we  have 
\  yet  to  relate  the  following  as  the  most  heinous  pos- 
sible : 

The  idea  has  been  disseminated  that  the  "eating  of 
semen  by  women  and  the  sipping  of  the  exundations 
H    of  women  by  men,  will  promote  health,  prolong  life, 
land  promote  beauty." 

This  consummation  of  the  basest  of  degradations  is 
\j  practiced  not  only  by  the  fast  but  by  husbands  and 
\their  wives. 

The  public  money  might  better  be  expended  in 
teaching  the  monstrousness  and  results  of  baseness 
so  vile  that  adjectives  cannot  be  found  sufficiently 
expressive  to  reach  the  case,  instead  of  arresting  for 
disseminating  obscene  matter. 


SOCIAL  EVIL. 


IIT 


Such  degradation  not  only  debases  so  that  the 
whole  expression  of  face  is  soon  so  hateful  that  one 
is  repelled  at  a  glance,  but  the  brain  is  so  injured^ 
^that  an  incurable  phase  of  insanity  results. 

What  is  thrown  off  by  men  and  women  have  a 
certain  mission  and  eiFect,  and  is  then  not  only  of  no-^ 
more  use,  but  is  a  positive  injury  if  retained.  'Na- 
ture makes  no  mistakes,  and  her  laws  cannot  be  in- 
fringed without  penalties. 

-N"othing  feeds  the  system  that  is  taken  into  the 
stomach,  only  as  it  goes  through  the  processes  of  di- 
gestion and  assimilation,  and  instead  of  such  disgust- 
I  ing  uses  of  effete  matter  being  beneficial  to  the  or- 
\gans  of  generation  they  are  serious  detriments. 

It  does  seem  that  the  depths  of  human  depravity^ 
have  been  reached,  and  it  is  time  that  human  beings 
realized  that  there  is  something  better  in  life  than 
^  making  a  study  how  to  turn  all  the  best  of  energies^ 
V  to  licentiousness. 

It  is  a  great  mystery  to  many,  why  men  in  high^, 
lucrative  and  responsible  positions  cannot  resist  temp- 
tations to  frauds,  thefts,  embezzlements,  etc.,  but 
to  us  it  is  not  so  strange  since  it  is  well  known  that 
"wine,  women  and  iniquities"  have  always  been' 
classed  together. 

The  women  who  are  the  victims  of  such  men, 
must  d  ress  fashionably  in  order  to  keep  in  their  graces, 
and  the  men  well  know  that  large  sums  of  money- 


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must  be  given  women  in  order  to  have  them  dress 
well  and  live  in  a  style  becoming  a  mistress  of  theirs. 
It  is  necessary  in  order  to  cloak  the  true  life  of  the 
woman,  for  the  man  to  furnish  means  sufficient  to 
have  her  be  living  on  a  seeming  income.  Thus  the 
true  relationship  is  covered  up  for  a  time,  and  calls 
seem  to  be  those  only  of  ordinary  friendship  in  the 
position. 

These  w^omen  constantly  living  false  lives  of  re- 
spectability, must  of  necessity  be  avaricious,  since 
fashions  are  ever  changing,  and  to  dress  as  well  as 
the  wives,  daughters  or  sisters  of  the  men  that  sup- 
port them,  and  in  whose  society  they  mingle,  a  large 
amount  of  money  is  necessary.  The  relationship 
\sexual,  with  such  women,  so  fills  such  men  with  the 
.  avarice  that  they  imbibe  from  them  through  the 
f  magnetic  influences  of  the  relation,  that  such  men 
are  fit  for  any  crimes  to  gain  money.  Men  lose  the 
moral  power  to  resist  evils  when  they  take  upon 
themselves  the  vile  magnetisms  of  such  women,  who 
obtain  a  power  over  them  that  cannot  be  thrown  oft' 
immediately.  They  lose  the  power  of  will,  and  no 
matter  how  much  their  reason  may  protest  against 
their  course,  it  is  of  no  use  when  will  is  powerless. 

We  are  not  sure  that  it  would  not  be  a  moral 
crime  for  any  one  to  be  silent  who  sees  the  causes 
and  eftect  of  human  wrongs,  and  how  government 
as  well  as  individuals  snfter  because  the  true  reasons 


PROLAPSUS  UTERI. 

1.  Spine. 

2.  Intestines. 

3.  Bladder. 

4.  Prolapsed  Uterus. 

The  uterus  (4)  is  frequently  prolapsed,  so  that  the 
whole  organ  is  outside  of  the  vagina.  The  illustration 
before  us  shows  that  it  is  as  nearly  prolapsed  as  possible 
and  not  be  outside  of  the  bod}^  The  intestines  (2)  are 
also  prolapsed.  We  have  had  a  case  where  a  portion  of 
the  same  were  outside  and  below  the  uterus. 

See  organs  of  chest,  figure  9,  that  the  bladder  is  nearly 
round  in  its  natural  condition.  The  shape  see  (3)  in  pro- 
lapsus uteri,  and  in  retroversion,  and  in  anteversion,  that 
other  organs  are  so  pressed  against  it  that  it  must  yield 
its  rotundity.  In  prolapsus  all  the  organs  of  the  pelvis 
are  displaced.  Few  know  that  the  ordinary  style  of 
woman's  dress  will  produce  this  and  all  other  weakness 
of  women  without  any  other  cause. 


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have  not  been  clearly  set  forth,  and  men  given  "line 
npon  line,  and  precept  upon  precept"  until  the  con- ' 
tinned  warnino's  shall  be  heeded. 

Masturbation. 

There  has  never  been  a  reliorious  sect  that  has  in-, 
augurated  the  all -important  law  of  protection  toj 
the  unborn  as  have  the  Mormons.  If  all  the  evils 
with  which  they  have  been  charged  were  true,  they 
would  weigh  but  little  in  comparison  with  the  great 
and  important  ideas  that  they  have  established  re-  \ 
garding  the  perfect  protection  of  the  enceinte  woman  / 
from  sexual  abuse.  All  the  strength  of  mind  and 
body  go  to  build  up  the  child  in  utero,  instead  of  en- 
feebling it  by  any  sexual  relation.  Children  born  with 
such  antenatal  conditions  have  so  much  better  nerves, 
and  better  control  of  their  organs  of  sex,  that  they 
will  have  no  desire  to  practice  masturbation,  to  be 
polygamists,  or  sensualists.  A  large  number  of  Mor- 
mons are  not  polygamists  in  practice,  and  do  not  use 
tobacco  or  any  intoxicating  drinks,  and  so  we  must 
look  to  the  Mormons  for  a  better  race  of  people. 
Purity  of  manhood  mnst  come  from  the  Mormons 
in  greater  numbers  than  from  any  other  church  un- 
less there  is  a  radical  change  in  the  churches,  by  ad- 
vising the  selfhood  of  women  in  the  marriage  re- 
lation to  be  sustained  by  their  church  creeds.  Then 


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will  masturbation  be  lessened,  and  with  a  knowledge 
of  its  effects  soon  cease  altogether. 

The  world  was  shocked  when  Fowler  &  Wells  sent 
forth  the  truths  to  the  world  regarding  the  practice 
of  masturbation  being  so  great  among  the  young. 

Many  people  were  quite  angry  because  of  the 
sweeping  assertions  made  by  these  doctors,  but  close 
observation  proved  that  all  was  true.  The  great  in- 
jury to  body  and  mind  from  this  cause  cannot  be 
computed.  The  wrecks  in  insane  asylums  all  over 
the  country,  the  loss  of  general  health,  the  inability 
to  be  stable,  and  a  long  category  of  evil  results  are 
now  clearly  to  be  discerned.  All  of  which  result 
from  the  utter  ignorance  of  the  subject.  Tobacco, 
intoxicating  drinks,  pepper,  and  the  heating  and 
dragging  of  the  mother's  clothing  all  effect  the  boy 
in  utero  so  that  an  effort  for  relief  is  made  by  mas- 
turbation. 

The  boys  of  to-day  have  more  to  contend  with 
because  of  their  antenatal  condition  than  is  apparent 
to  those  who  have  had  but  little  thought  upon  the 
subject,  for  they  are  born  with  an  inflamed  prostate 
gland:  this  is  situated  around  the  urethra  and 
in  masturbation,  (long  before  puberty,)  gives  forth  a 
discharge.  After  puberty  it  frequently  occurs  that 
no  amount  of  sexual  variety  or  excess  will  prevent  men 
from  masturbation.  This  is  sometimes  practiced  in 
the  beds  of  their  wives.    This  is  more  frequent  after 


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middle  life  than  at  any  other  time.  ^Tatiire  takes 
away  the  power  of  sexual  gratification  from  men  at 
a  certain  age.  The  time  varies,  and  men  who  do  not 
understand  this  law,  rush  to  physicians  for  remedies.. 
Excesses  in  sexual  commerce  and  masturbation  both 
leave  old  men  with  an  irritable  condition  of  the  or- 
gans  of  sex,  owing  to  an  inflamed  and  enlarged  i3ros- 
tate  gland.  The  old  man  must  pay  for  his  iniqui- 
ties in  other  w^ays  than  those  usually  considered. 

^ot  only  are  the  boys  addicted  to  this  practice  as 
a  result  of  the  causes  just  mentioned,  but  one  has 
only  to  visit  the  teachers  of  schools  of  every  grade 
and  age,  where  girls  are  sent,  to  be  convinced  to 
what  an  extent  the  wrongs  of  parents  are  visited  upon 
daughters  as  well  as  sons. 

one  can  practice  this  vice  without  the  sure 
marks  of  the  same  being  left  in  the  face. 

In  a  certain  country  the  making  of  rubber  male-  ^ 
organs  for  the  ji^nrpose  of  facilitating  girls  in  mastur- 
bation, is  a  lucrative  business.  The  cost  of  manu- 
facturing is  about  thirty  cents,  and  they  retail  at 
from  two  to  three  dollars.  They  are  of  difterent 
sizes,  and  girls  of  various  ages  are  taught  by  their 
companions  their  uses.  When  one  size  is  outgrown^ 
a  larger  size  is  purchased.  They  are  kept  at  fancy 
shops  attended  by  w^omen,  who  ask  their  lady  custo-  . 
mers  ''wha^  number  of  the  Ladies'  Companion  they 
wish  to  have  done  up  with  their  bundle."    When  the 


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i  lady  begins  to  talk  about  the  magazines  of  that  name, 
^she  is  informed  that  "the  'Companion'  is  in  a  box." 
/     This  kind  of  masturbation,  like  all  other  ways  of 
[  secret  vice,  sooner  or  later  leads  to  sexual  relations.  ^ 
The  effects  of  this  vice  on  men  are  numerous.  The 
most  usual  are  consumption,  insanity,  softening  of 
the  brain  and  disease  of  the  cuticle,  and  while  all 
these  are  the  effect  on  women,  there  is  also  an  elon- 
/gation  of  the  clitoris,  and  a  formation  of  warty  ex- 
'|crescences  on  the  vulva.    Men  or  women  who  are 
addicted  to  this  vice,  cannot  become  parents  of  either 
a  superior  mental  or  physical  type  of  humanity,  be- 
cause of  loss  of  power.    Such  a  person  cannot  be  a 
desirable  husband  or  wife,  because  of  the  loss  of 
magnetic  power. 

ISTothing  so  destroys  the  ability  to  think  deeply, 
logically,  gradually  and  connectedly  as  does  orgasm 
even  in  the  natural  way  if  frequent,  but  especially 
in  this  true  when  produced  in  other  ways. 

The  Oneida  communit}^  learned  this,  and  soon 
incorporated  the  idea  in  their  religious  teachings, 
and  would  have  deserved  the  name  of  "Perfection- 
ists,"' if  they  had  lived  up  to  their  ideas,  and  not 
/substituted  promiscuity  under  certain  arrange- 
\  ments.  Their  infringement  of  the  great  law,  that 
sexual  relation  should  not  be  had  without  emission, 
and  that  for  posterity  alone  has  aroused  the  thinker 
to  decide  that  they  have  retrograded  instead  of  ad- 


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\ 

\vancing,  for  the  long  continued  sexual  excitement '\ 
with  suppressed  orgasm' is  a  serious  injury  to  both/ 
body  and  mind. 

TTature  provides  that  the  secretions  of  the  relation 
should  be  properly  mixed,  one  purpose  of  which  is 
to  sooth  the  nerves  of  both  organs. 

Their  relationship  is  one  of  organized  sensuality 
that  does  not  fail  to  produce  direful  results  on  the 
minds  and  bodies  of  their  participants,  and  but  for  the 
\Onedia  women  wearing  reform  dresses,  having  an 
excellent  diet,  being  systematic  in  exercise,  and  not 
being  overworked,  the  bad  results  would  be  still  more 
apparent. 

The  rede_eming  feature  of  the  men,  in  never  co- 
ercing women  into  sexual  relationships  has  induced 
abused  women  to  join  the  Onedia  community.  But 
we  must  forever  condemn  the  double  masturbation 
that  sexual  relation  certainly  is,  when  for  licentious 
purpose  alone,  instead  of  for  the  procreation  of  hu- 
manity. But  for  women  submitting  to  promiscuous 
sexual  relations,  they  could  not  have  their  homes. 

This  we  assert  as  a  rule.  Their  submitting  will 
make  secret  vice  in  their  children  a  certain  result, 
'  for  such  an  excitement  of  the  organs  of  sex  cannot \ 
fail  to  produce  their  legitimate  results  in  posterity.''^ 
It  is  well  for  the  world  that  all  kinds  of  experi- 
ments to  evade  the  great  and  beautiful  law  of  mo- 
nogamic  purity  are  being  tested  in  a  free  country  in 


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an  unrestrained  manner  under  the  law  of  religious 
liberty,  for  it  is  only  through  all  of  these  experiences 
that  those  incapable  of  metaphysical  depth  can  see 
the  great  laws  of  beauty  and  harmony  as  exemplified 
in  the  grandeur  of  a  life  free  from  all  the  objectionable 
features  that  such  experiments  have  disclosed. 

All  kinds  of  vices  and  outrageous  ways  of  human 
beings  has  caused  some  geniuses  to  invent  remedies 
for  relief  from  results  in  the  shape  of  supporters, 
pessaries,  trusses,  uterine  elevators,  suspension  ban- 
dages, etc.,  etc.  But  not  until  1870  was  the  perfec- 
tion of  an  equal  to  the  Spanish  inquisition  patented 
by  the  United  States.  'No  doubt  the  inventor's  in- 
tentions were  good,  as  the  following  will  show : 

"My  invention  is  a  device  for  so  covering  up  the 
sexual  organs  of  a  person  addicted  to  the  vice  of 
masturbation,  from  his  own  touch  and  control,  that 
he  or  she  must  refrain  from  the  commission  of  the 
vicious  and  self-degrading  act. 

"It  is  well  known  to  those  who  have  charge  of  pris- 
ons, reform-schools,  and  the  like,  that  the  practice  of 
masturbation  becomes  all  but  universal  among  those 
confined  therein.  It  is  also  well  known  to  physi- 
cians, and  to  some  heads  of  families,  that  multitudes 
of  children  of  both  sexes  injure  their  moral  and 
jDhysical  natures  for  life  by  the  practice  of  this  vice. 

"My  invention  is  designed  to  put  it  into  the  power 


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of  those  who  have  the  control  of  all  such  persons  to 
entirely  prevent  the  practice." 

We  well  knew  that  it  came  from  a  man^  and  he 
not  a  physician,  for  no  intelligent  woman  would  have 
been  guilty  of  sending  forth  such  an  instrument,  and 
when  there  shall  be  a  woman  doctor  as  an  examiner 
for  all  articles  intended  for  the  use  of  women,  noth- 
ing so  monstrous  will  ever  be  patented.  AYe  will 
2;o  farther  and  say  crueL 

Here  is  the  description  : 

"A  band  encircling  the  body  just  above  the  hips, 
the  band  being  locked  together  behind  by  a  small 
p)adlock,  or  other  suitable  device,  the  key  to  which 
is  to  be  carried  by  the  person  who  has  charge  of  the 
masturbator. 

"  In  front  this  band  is  connected,  by  numerous 
strips,  with  the  lower  band  which  at  the  rear  passes 
down,  one  end  under  the  leg,  and  both  ends  are  at- 
tached to  the  rear  of  the  pouch  which  pouch  is  made 
somewhat  bag-like  for  the  purpose  of  containing 
the  organs.  The  front  part  of  the  pouch  is  attached 
to  the  lower  band  in  front  of  the  person. 

''These  various  parts — the  upper  and  lower  bands, 
the  connecting  strips,  and  the  pouch — may  be  of 
cloth,  leather,  or  metal,  or,  in  fact,  any  other  con- 
venient material.  If  made  of  metal,  the  j)arts  which 
bear  against  the  body  must  be  padded  to  prevent 
chafing  and  injury  to  the  person. 


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"The  pouch  should  (at  least  I  so  prefer  it)  be  made 
of  rubber  or  metal,  and  at  the  rear  a  small  hole  or 
spout  is  left  for  the  discharge  of  urine. 

"  The  apparatus  must  be  so  fitted  to  the  body  as  to 
have  the  edges  of  the  pouch  fit  close  against  the  per- 
son, so  that  it  will  be  impossible  for  the  wearer  to 
touch  the  confined  organ. 

"If  the  connecting  strips  are  made  of  metal,  they 
should  be  hinged  or  pivoted  to  both  the  upper  and 
lower  bands,  so  as  to  allow  free  movement  of  the 
body. 

"In  addition  to  its  property  as  a  protector,  this  de- 
vice serves  a  useful  purpose  in  sustaining  the  bowels, 
like  a  truss,  or  as  furnishing  the  foundation  for  the 
attachment  of  shoulder-braces. 

"  It  is  recommended  that  all  the  parts  be  made  as 
flexible  as  is  consistent  with  the  office  they  have  to 
perform." 

In  the  first  place  there  is  no  necessity  for  such  an 
inquisitorial  device,  for  a  reform  dress  will  prevent 
seduction  and  rape.  If  only  pants  are  made  in  the 
ordinary  way  of  slash  fronts,  anything  of  the  kind 
would  be  impossible,  for  the  vagina  is  so  far  from  ' 
Ithe  centre  of  the  pants  rape  could  not  be  committed. 

The  undersuit  is  so  constructed  that  a  second  bar- 
rier would  also  be  met,  and  a  third  also  in  the  second 
suit  that  is  worn,  as  muslin  and  flannel  are  both  worn, 
made  in  the  same  way.    If  for  the  purpose  of  pre- 


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venting  masturbation,  a  straight  jacket  will  reniedj 
that — but  for  the  device  itself.  If  worn  in  the  day- 
time, in  order  for  it  to  be  large  enough  to  cover  the 
parts,  and  snug  enough  to  prevent  the  vice  being 
still  practiced,  it  would  interfere  not  only  with  loco- 
motion, but  so  heat  the  parts  that  it  would  excite 
and  agonize,  besides  inilaming  the  parts  covered,  and 
no  matter  what  amount  of  "padding,"  it  would  irri- 
tate all  around  the  pouch.  The  undried  urine  would  ^ 
■  agonize  the  girl.  As  for  the  strips  around  the  legs, 
all  women  who  wear  the  ordinary  supporters  with 
only  cotton  strips  complain  of  chafiing.  As  for  the 
padlock  behind,  that  would  prevent  laying  on  the 
back — the  bands  around  the  body  w^ould  so  press 
upon  the  hips  and  body  as  to  prevent  laying  on 
either  side.  But  that  is  not  the  worst  feature.  IS'o 
one  can  lay  down  and  be  at  all  comfortable  with  any 
fastenings  around  them,  besides  the  positive  injury 
to  all  pelvic  organs,  and  no  one  can  endure  anything 
as  snus:  around  them  when  lavino;  down  as  when  sit- 
ting  or  standing,  and  if  loose  enough  to  be  endurable, 
it  could  not  be  a  j^f^eventive  to  masturbation.  Any 
bands  of  any  kind  around  the  body  are  injurious  we 
repeat  to  impress  the  fact. 

To  prevent  an  inclination  to  masturbation  is  the 
object  of  the  wise.  Do  away  with  tobacco,  strong 
drink  and  petticoats  in  parents,  and  children  will 
not  desire  to  commit  the  deed. 


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Teach  the  children  to  eschew  tohacco,  strono- 
drinks,  pepper  and  petticoats,  and  they  will  not  be 
^victims  of  social  evils  of  any  grade  if  Unmasked  is 
put  into  their  hands  at  an  early  age. 

Where  is  there  a  father  that  will  not  thank  the 
hand  that  saved  both  his  boys  and  his  girls  by  giv- 
ing them  a  knowledge  of  all  the  evils  of  the  world, 
that  they  may  be  forewarned  and  forearmed  in  their 
young  3^ears,  before  they  learned  by  sad  experience  ? 

Any  government,  whether  national  or  local,  that 
obtains  revenues  from  vice  of  any  kind,  whether  it 
T^e  intoxicatino;  drinks,  tobacco  or  contaofious  disease 
acts,  pay  dearly  for  such  oversight,  such  ignorance, 
such  downright  crime. 

When  there  is  proper  legislation  regarding  the 
manufacture  of  a  sufficient  quantity  of  intoxicating 
beverages  for  the  arts,  and  a  penalty  for  further  de- 
struction of  grain  and  fruit  food — a  penalty  for  the 
manufacture  of  tobacco,  or  putting  it  into  the  market 
without  strychnine  or  something  so  disgusting  that  it 
will  not  be  used  for  other  than  insect  exterminators, 
than  we  may  with  a  diffusion  of  knowledge  regard- 
ing baneful  effects,  hope  to  be  rid  of  such  evils. 

As  for  contagious  disease  acts^  and  the  revenue  de- 
rived from  the  same;  the  two  evils  just  mentioned 
are  the  parents  of  the  necessity  for  considering  the 
question,  by  irritating  the  whole  nerve  system,  and 


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^especially  that  wliicli  is  apart  of  and  connected  with 
the  organs  of  sex. 

Such  inherited  irritability,  and  such  still  farther 
irritability  by  use  themselves,  or  by  sexual  contact 
with  those  who  do  use  the  same,  are  causes  that  we 
lare  astonished  at  so  few  comprehending.  As  for  the 
efficiency  of  such  a  vile  measure  as  the  infamous 
contagious  disease  act,  instead  of  lessening  venereal 
diseases,  it  is  increased — first,  by  the  appearance  of 
a  freedom  from  the  same  when  it  is  gnawing  the  in- 
tricate folds  of  the  vagina,  and  has  extended  into 
the  uterus,  where  it  is  impossible  to  discover  the  true 
condition,  as  not  even  labor  pains  can  relax  the  uterus 
w^ithout  so  much  blood  flowing,  that  the  true  condi- 
tion cannot  possibly  be  seen ;  second,  by  men  rush- 
xing  into  vice  because  it  is  sanctioned  by  law,  and 
they  have  full  confidence  in  the  examination  protec- 
tion. But  the  most  infamous  {and  loe  pause  for  lack 
of  adjectives  to  express  any  piux  iooman\s  emotionsyof 
anything  ever  enacted  by  men,  is  that  j^oor^  seduced^ 
helpless  ivoman  is  made  the  disease  monger  of  man^ 
under  the  guise  of  his  being  free  from  disease  of  the 
most  agonizing  nature,  and  seeking  her  because  he 
is  thus  free  and  afraid  of  contamination,  when  the 
real  fact  is,  that  by  variety  life  he  has  become  di-l 
seased  and  thinks  to  rid  himself  by  giving  it  to  her.' 

]N^othing  can  partake  of  brimstone  selfishness  to 
so  great  a  depth  as  such  an  act  1 1 1 


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But  there  is  not  a  shadow  of  truth  in  the  efficac}-" 
of  such  so]3histry.  The  true  logic  is  borne  out  by 
facts,  that  the  freer  such  cases  are  from  any  excite- 
ment the  better  in  all  regards. 

But  as  long  as  men  alone  make  the  laws,  they  will 
not  submit  to  an  examination  themselves,  to  see 
■whether  they  are  free  from  disease,  and  a  liability  to 
give  it  to  women.  If  it  is  proper  for  men  in  the  pro- 
fession to  examine  prostitute  women  to  see  that  they 
are  free  from  disease  for  men's  use,  it  is  as  proper 
that  women  in  the  profession  be  also  salaried  to  ex- 
amine men  prostitutes  to  see  if  they  are  free  from 
.disease  for  women's  use. 

l^ow  be  startled  with  "holy  horror"  at  such  a 
proposition  as  this,  but  remember  that  it  is  only 
turning  the  tables  in  words  but  when  they  are  turned 
in  reality  regarding  all  of  the  one-sided  sex  outrages, 
the  beauty  of  tweedledee  and  tweedledum  will  be  as 
ajDparent  to  men  as  it  is  now  to  women. 

A  few  men  are  even  now  looking  at  this  one-sided 
moral  business  and  taking  action  in  recognition  of 
the  necessity  of  purity  in  men.  Messrs.  Walter 
M'Larens,  George  Warr,  and  others  in  London  havo 
a  Social  Purity  Alliance. 

Fere  Hyacinth,  (Catholic  ;)  Zoadook  Kahn,  Grand 
Eabbi  of  Paris  ;  the  Archbishop  of  Paris :  Rev.  Dr. 
Baur,  (Episcopal,)  of  Germany ;  Rev.  Mr.  Cook  and 
Saunter  de  Bloumey,  of  Geneva  ;  M.  Leon  Richer  and 


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Theodore  Manocl,  of  Paris;  Joseph iTathaii,  Alphonso 
Tavre,  Salvantore  Colonna  and  Prof.  Darneth,  of 
Eome  ;  Orris  Brusca,  of  Milan  ;  Pev.  George  Butler, 
F.  W.  Benting  and  A.  L.  Bernistee,  of  Liverpool ; 
Henry  Richards,  M.  P.,  Sir  Harcourt  Johnson,  Eight 
Hon.  James  Stanfield,  Edward  Blackhouse,  Dr.  ^e- 
vins.  Dr.  Eouth,Dr.  Drydale,  Dr.  Carter,  Dr.  Carson, 
Prof.  Stewart,  Prof.  Sheldon,  all  from  various  places 
in  England,  besides  many  others  that  represent  all  the 
principal  religions,  the  Materialists  and  the  Spirt u- 
alists. 

It  is  to  be  hoped  that  the  time  is  not  distant  when 
every  community  will  have  a  Social  Purity  Alliance 
among  men,  where  vices  of  all  kinds  will  be  discoun- 
tenanced. 

The  grand  men  whose  names  we  have  just  men- 
tioned, give  their  culture,  position,  words  and  exam- 
ples to  the  great  work.  They  attended  the  Geneva 
Congress  last  year,  and  one  and  all  were  disgusted 
with  any  sort  of  contagious  disease  acts,  or  anything 
sanctioning  manhood  impurity. 

It  is  to  be  regretted  that  none  of  our  finely  cul- 
tured American  women  who  fully  understand  the 
basic  principles  of  the  foundation  of  all  permanent 
reforms,  {a  proper  dress  for  imnen,)  were  not  present. 
One  practical  exponent  of  a  moral  reform  costume, 
would  have  given  a  tone  and  turn  to  the  proceedings 


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that  would  have  sent  reform  a  score  of  years  mtcf 
the  grand  future. 

Every  living  example  of  an  emblematic  dress  of 
23urity ,  is  worth  a  million  speeches  from  those  women 
who  preach  reforms  of  any  kind  while  slaves  to  an 
immoral,  bedecked,  befurbelowed,  and  petticoated 
costume.  Immoral  women  are  disgusted  with  the- 
inconsistency  of  such  women  who  urge  them  to 
leave  a  life  that  provides  the  same  extravagance  and 
show  of  dress.  Such  long  dressed  women  are  ever 
calling  forth  a  presumption  in  the  minds  of  those 
they  are  working  to  reform,  that  there  is  the  same 
want  of  proper  protection  of  the  organs  of  sex,  and 
that  the  same  facilities  for  vice  can  be  found.  And 
just  as  long  as  the  ordinary  long  dress  is  worn,  will 
there  be  such  a  presumption  and  such  a  reality. 
Cleanliness  is  next  to  morality.  The  fanning-mill 
of  even  ankle  drapery,  causes  an  accumulation  of 
dust  that  reaches  and  excites  the  one  who  wears  the 
same. 

The  purity  of  woman  generally  cannot  be  assured 
until  the  immoral  dressing  is  stopped,  for  it  unfits 
woman  in  body  for  the  duties  of  life  by  its  weight, 
cumberousness  and  expense,  in  mind  by  the  drain  of 
noble  energies  in  following  the  ever  changing  fash- 
ions. 

It  is  not  frequent  that  a  reliable  and  permanent 
structure  of  grand  morality  is  builded  upon  stays,. 


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petticoats,  and  their  accompanying  absurdities,  and 
the  sooner  the  good  men  of  the  world  see  this  and 
understand  that  human  perfections  of  body,  mind 
and  morals,  need  sterner  stuff  than  sham  ""grace  in 
drajpery^'^  (which  is  but  a  fitting  term  for  languor  and 
helplessness,)  the  world  will  be  better  in  all  regards. 

Let  all  men  do  what  is  possible  to  encourage  a 
sentiment  of  beauty  of  mind  and  large  understand- 
ing of  brain  and  boots,  instead  of  talking  sweet 
nonsense  and  praising  little  feet. 

We  call  upon  our  so-called  "protectors"  to  do  their 
duty  against  the  tyrant  fashion. 

"When  this  is  done  women  will  need  no  protection, 
from  other  tyrants.  This  monster  one  that  sips  vi- 
tality and  virtue  is  the  only  one  worth  mention  to- 
be  protected  from,  for  all  others  will  meekly  bow 
when  the  tyrant  fashion  is  destroyed. 

Women  and  their  children  will  not  then  be  suici- 
dists,  but  will  gladly  live  as  long  as  they  can  to  be 
properly  developed  for  another  state  of  existence, 
and  will  not  be  constantly  longing  for  someting  to 
quiet  their  nerves.  Men  for  tobacco  and  whisky,  and. 
women  for  gum  and  candy. 

Obscene  Publications. 

The  law  regarding  "obscene  matter  being  sent 
through  the  mails,"  is  an  eminently  proper  one. 
But  in  order  to  be  effectual,  the  power  to  decide  re- 


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garding  the  character  of  questionable  publications 
should  be  in  the  hands  of  the  scientific  and  morally 
pure.  Of  all  that  have  been  arrested,  few  have  de- 
served to  be,  and  instead  of  decreasing  their  sales, 
the  very  arrests  have  excited  curiositj^  regarding 
them.  Those  making  quotations  from  the  Bible  are 
the  only  exception.  The  officer  that  is  so  ignorant 
as  not  to  be  familiar  with  Bible  history,  until  in- 
formed in  a  court  of  justice  by  those  defending  them- 
selves in  suits  for  sending  obscene  matter  through 
the  mails,  ought  to  cut  out  the  obscenity  and  make 
a  raid  on  all  the  Bible  houses  in  the  United  States,  in 
order  to  be  consistent. 

'We  think  the  Bible  should  be  read  by  every  mature 
person,  for  the  grandest  lessons  are  learned  of  per- 
verted human  nature^  and  the  results  of  such  per- 
version on  posterity.  The  same  immoralities  with 
^  men  making  slaves  of  women  were  practiced  then 
as  they  are  to-day,  and  it  would  seem  that  the  lessons 
learned  from  the  Bible  ought  to  prevent  crimes  of 
the  darkest  hue,  especially  with  those  who  believe 
in  its  divine  origin,  that  it  does  not,  proves  more 
than  many  are  willing  to  acknowledge,  and  Avere  it 
not  for  the  friends  of  about  fifty  of  many  of  the 
ablest  clergymen  in  this  country,  we  should  here 
publish  their  names  as  proof  of  the  vilest  of  immoral- 
ities having  been  practiced  by  them,  and  in  nearly  all 
instances  their  victims  were  "lambs  of  the  fiock," 


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from  the  clergymen  standing  on  the  highest  pinnacle 
■of  pulpit  oratory,  to  the  meekest  of  the  clerical  pro- 
fession. Something  more  than  the  ordinary  religion 
was  needed  for  such  men.  Something  plainer  than 
even  Bible  history.    Are  their  histories  obscene  ? 

'Not  only  do  members  of  churches  commit  all  the 
crimes  on  the  Bible  calendar  but  the  expounders  of 
the 'Bible  do  just  as  badly,  even  to  the  incest  of 
daughters  under  the  pretense  at  first,  that  '''all  fath- 
ers have  such  a  duty  to  do  or  their  daughters  would 
die,"  and  afterwards  threaten  them  with  certain 
murder  if  they  reveal  the  same. 

It  is  but  a  few  years  since  such  a  case  occurred  in 
western  N.  Y.  while  the  clergyman  was  officiating 
in  all  his  clerical  duties  for  about  three  years  of  the 
time. 

In  Herkimer  county,  K  Y.,  in  1868,  a  woman 
having  an  only  daughter  about  seventeen  years  of  age 
visited  her  friend  at  a  distance,  leaving  her  daughter 
to  keep  house  for  her  father.  She  had  been  absent 
but  a  few  hours  when  the  father  of  the  girl  asked 
her  if  she  knew  why  her  mother  had  gone  on  the 
visit,  and  then  informed  her  of  the  duty  of  every 
father;  and  how  he  hated  to  be  obliged  to  performx 
his  duty;  and  that  her  friend,  who  died  a  few  weeks 
before,  would  have  lived  if  her  father  had  done  so. 

•5^  -X-  *  -:v  ^  *  w  -X-  ^- 

When  her  mother  returned,  she  was  so  weary  with 
9 


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travel  that  she  reclined  on  her  daughter's  bed  in  the 
most  quiet  part  of  the  house.  Soon  after  dark  her 
daughter,  wearied  with  an  unusual  day's  house  work, 
retired  with  her.  Late  in  the  evening  the  husband 
and  father  returned  from  a  neighboring  town  where  he 
had  been  delayed  on  some  business.  He  came  to  the 
daughter's  room  and  immediately  comprehending 
the  situation  took  hold  of  both  his  daughter's  feet 
(as  he  supposed)  to  awaken  her,  but  through  mistake 
in  one  of  the  feet  awakened  the  wife  and  mother. 

We  lectured  in  the  town  where  this  occurred,  but 
we  have  considered  such  a  history  too  obscene  to  go 
through  the  mails  to  feed  perverted  taste,  but  we 
should  be  derelict  in  duty  if  we  omitted  here  to  show 
the  infamous  means  taken  by  fathers  to  lie  their  own 
daughters  into  harlotry  1 

In  closing  this  chapter  on  Social  Evil,  we  must 
impress  men  with  the  magnitude  of  their  duty  to 
women  in  every  relation  of  life,  not  forgetting  their 
protecting  power  in  prisons,  station-houses,  poor- 
houses,  asylums  and  hospitals.    All  of  these  are  more 
/  or  less  under  the  actual  surveillance  of  men,  when 
1  the  women  are  weak  in  mind,  body  or  morals,  and 
'  more  frequently  than  otherwise  in  all  three  regards. 
Opportunities  are  not  wanting  to  make  easy  facil- 
ities for  vice,  and  that  they  are  sometimes  improved 
by  both  the  doctors,  stewards  and  others  is  a  fact 
that  cannot  be  denied,  and  that  is  a  disgrace  to  civ- 


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ilization,  since  there  are  enough  competent  women 
doctors  and  stewards  to  manage  the  women's  depart- 
ments in  all  the  institutions  of  the  United  States. 

It  is  the  duty  of  men  to  so  protect  all  the  women 
needing  any  public  charities,  and  all  who  are  by 
them  locked  up  for  any  cause  whatsoever. 

They  are  not  assuredly  protected  as  women,  unless 
every  possibility  of  immorality  is  removed  by  women 
occupying  every  position  relating  to  them. 

Men  are  reared  with  the  one  idea  prominent,  that 
"there  is  a  necessity  for  sexual  relation  with  all  men,, 
and  that  all  sorts  of  means  to  gratify  their  passions- 
are  in  a  way  honorable,"  and  wrongs  to  women  will 
always  result  with  opportunities,  until  the  language 
of  the  nerves  is  understood,  and  that  there  is  no  suck 
"  necessity  with  men"  any  more  than  there  is  w^ith 
w^omen.  And  when  hoys  are  taught,  as  girls  are,  to 
control  their  natural  passions,  they  will  do  so  as  well^ 
and  when  they  become  men  they  will  from  habit  be 
as  pure.  There  are  occasional  proofs  of  this.  "When 
there  are  more  pure  men  we  shall  soon  find  all  ex- 
cuses for  vice  placed  where  they  belong.  One  of  the 
llimsiest  to  keep  women  in  an  absurdly  unprotected 
dress,  is  that  it  is  unhealthy  for  women  to  be  cov- 
ered. Such  talk  from  doctors,  who  were  either 
knaves  or  were  ignoramuses,  have  many  times  come 
to  our  ears.  The  fact  is  that  a  great  deal  of  suffer- 
ing is  caused  by  a  want  of  such  protection.    That  it 


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is  a  trick  of  tlie  lascivious  to  have  the  facilities  for 
vice  easy  is  too  patent  for  further  mention,  save  that 
hundreds  of  women  who  have  worn  the  reform  dress 
for  over  a  score  of  years  can  testify  in  regard  to  such 
dress  benefiting  them  in  every  respect. 

We  do  not  know  as  our  duty  is  done  without  again 
referring  to  Queen  Victoria's  domain,  and  entering 
our  protest  against  wrong  wherever  it  exist. 

We  refer  her  to  the  following  facts  and  ask  her  to 
read  our  chapters  on  the  Language  of  the  ISTerves 
and  Pure  Manhood,  with  the  hopes  that  the  wrong 
mentioned  will  be  righted  in  the  following  manner. 
Pay  her  common  soldiers  so  that  they  can  afford  to 
marry ;  remove  their  restrictions  on  marriage ;  re- 
peal the  Contagious  Disease  Acts  ;  make  provisions 
for  the  honorable  self-support  of  the  hundreds  of 
thousands  of  women  that  have  been  the  victims. 

So  good  a  woman  as  the  Queen  will  not  fail  to  do 
what  is  for  the  best  good  of  her  people  when  condi- 
tions are  properly  placed  before  her. 

The  preventing  only  one  soldier  in  ten  marrying 
in  the  English  army  has  caused  the  Government  to 
pass  Contagious  Disease  Acts  to  protect  the  soldiers. 
These  were  passed  in  1866  and  1869.  At  the  close 
of  1874,  245,727  examinations  were  made  on  healthy 
women  and  girls.  If  these  had  not  submitted  they 
would  have  been  imprisoned. 

■   "The  ITational  Association"  for  the  repeal  of  the 


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infamous  acts  sent  an  address  to  the  friends  of  Mo- 
rality and  Justice  in  America,  and  were  represented 
by  Mr.  Henry  J.  "Wilson  and  Eev.  J.  P.  Gledstone, 
about  two  years.  Since  Mr.  Wm.  Haen,  chairman, 
and  Frederic  Charles  Banks,  secretary  of  the  Asso- 
ciation. 

The  native  women  in  India  have  committed  sui- 
/  cide  rather  than  submit  to  examinotions  by  State 
\  surgeons  under  the  English  Government. 

In  Yokohama,  under  British  government,  brothels 
have  numerals  over  the  doors. 

In  Hong-Kong  brothels  are  licensed  by  the  Eng- 
lish Government. 

"We  are  opposed  to  having  laws  to  compel  vaccina- 
tion, for  it  matters  not  how  many  cows  the  virus  has 
\    been  cleansed  by,  as  long  as  there  is  enough  of  the 
*>!  poison  to  inflame  the  arm  there  is  enough  to  injure 
the  system,  in  insidious  ways,  that  can  be  understood 
by  reading  the  language  of  the  rierves.    Better  trust 
to  the  possibility  of  having  one  poison  of  small-pox 
I  in  the  system  than  to  deliberately  introduce  what 
no  one  knows  how  many  poisons  it  contains. 


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CHAPTER  XI. 
"  Hernia. 

Seven-tenths  of  the  men  are  afflicted  with  hernia. 
This  is  too  grave  a  matter  to  pass  over  with  a  mere 
mention  of  the  fact. 

The  jrasoner  will  at  once  look  for  the  cause,  while 
the  unfortunate  sufferers  are  testing  the  remedies. 

Since  all  ages  and  both  sexes  are  sufferers,  we  are 
surprised  that  no  more  remote  causes  than  the  cry- 
ing of  infants,  and  the  severe  toil  of  adults  should 
he  mentioned. 

Here  is  a  telling  illustration  of  the  truth,  that 
\women  cannot  suffer  without  men  being  sufferers 
€ilso.    The  ordinary  style  of  woman's  dress  so  debili- 
tates the  pelvic  organs  of  woman,  that  they  are  more 
or  less  prolapsed,  as  also  are  her  abdominal  viscera, 
\     the  bowels.    The  whole  of  the  organs  of  generation 
\  in  women  are  weakened  by  their  clothing,    l^o  petti- 
coats, corsets,  whalebones  or  any  fastenings  around 
the  waist  can  be  worn  without  injury  to  woman's 
\    abdominal  and  pelvic  viscera.    Men  could  not  wear 
■  '  the  ordinary  clothing  of  women  without  injury,  but 
it  would  be  far  less  injurious  to  them  than  to  women, 
because  they  have  not  women's  pelvic  organs  to  pro- 
lapse, to  displace  or  otherwise  iiijiire. 


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But  while  women  dress  in  this  way,  their  sons  are  ^ 
injured  through  them,  to  such  an  extent  that  many 
are  born  with  inguinal  hernia.  In  some  cases  it  does 
not  appear  until  a  year  or  two  of  age.  In  a  large 
number  of  instances,  the  membraneous  tissue  over 
the  bowels  and  the  muscular  tissue  over  them,  are  so 
weakened  that  hernia  is  the  sure  result,  from  over 
work,  a  misstep,  or  from  even  less  causes.  When  men 
evolve  out  of  their  might  of  ignorant  oppression  of 
scientific  women  who  are  dressing  hygienically  and 
use  their  influence  and  money  to  further  general  en- 
lightment  and  practice  of  the  true  object  of  clothing, 
their  sons  and  grandsons  will  be  free  from  the  sure 
tendency  to  hernia  and  not  until  then  ;  it  matters  not 
what  they  may  think  regarding  an  ignorant  standard 
of  *'taste,"  that  is  made  by  equally  ignorant  courte- 
sans and  adopted  by  them,  not  as  a  imnciiile  of  dress, 
for  ever-changing  fashions  cannot  be  principles.  A 
reform  dress  is  an  embodiment  of  a  principle  ;  and 
as  "principles  are  eternal,"  men  will  have  the  satis- 
faction ere  long,  to  find  that  principles  cannot  be 
destroyed  by  any  sort  of  oppression,  but  the  real  pa- 
triots and  the  true  philanthropists,  will  join  with  the 
philosophers  in  establishing  the  same. 

Dr.  J^onot,  the  leading  man  of  the  profession  in 
Paris,  wrote  the  author  a  letter,  in  which  he  speaks 
of  the  ordinary  arrangement  of  woman's  clothing 


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being  one  of  the  most  fruitful  causes  of  the  weak- 
nesses and  diseases  peculiar  to  women. 

Dr.  Banning,  the  great  American  inventor  of  uter- 
ine elevators^  is  explicit  regarding  the  mechanical  dis- 
placing of  the  abdominal  and  pelvic  vicera  by  dress. 

Prof.  Phelps,  of  Andover  University,  acknowl- 
edged to  be  one  of  the  most  learned  in  the  profes- 
sion, said  to  his  class  "that  the  women  of  America 
would  ere  long  be  obliged  to  doll*  petticoats  and  put 
on  panta,  as  the  ordinary  dress  was  an  injury  to  the 
reproductive  organs  of  woman  and  her  whole  nerve 


\  system." 

It  requires  a  high  order  of  moral  courage  for  a  sci- 
entific man  to  express  himself  on  the  subject,  when 
we  calmly  look  the  facts  in  the  face,  that  so  large  a 
\number  of  the  women  are  monomaniacs  on  dress ! 
.  The  general  question  now  before  the  American 
people  is  not  a  monetary  one ;  it  is  an  invalid  one. 
But  examine  the  cut  where  the  location  of  the  organs 
of  generation  are  plainly  seen,  and  it  will  not  be  diffi- 
cult for  even  the  average  man  to  comprehend  what 
we  have  said  regarding  the  mechanical  injury  of  or- 
dinary dress.  It  needs  but  little  causality  to  readily 
see  how  hernia  is  the  result  of  causes  mentioned. 

While  woman's  generative  organs  are  affected  as 
men's  cannot  be,  because  they  are  essentially  differ- 
ent, so  women  who  have  anteversion,  retroversion, 
inversion  and  i^rolapsus  of  the  uterus  not  only  trans- 


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mit  these  tendencies  to  their  daughters,  but  their 
^sons  have  weaknesses  of  the  organs  of  sex.  Thu& 
prolapsus  of  the  scrotum  may  be  directly  the  result 
of  sexual  excess,  but  there  must  be  a  weakened  con- 
dition inherited  to  produce  such  a  result,  as  is  also 
the  case  with  other  difficulties  that  do  not  result 
from  contagion.  The  law  of  inheritance  is  observed 
as  nearly  as  is  possible  with  the  difference  of  sex. 


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CHAPTER  XIL 
The  Language  of  the  Nerves. 

Part  First. 

Men  argue  that  as  the  male  animals  pursue  and 
force  the  females  to  yield,  therefore  the  law  of  force 
in  the  sexual  relations  is  the  natural  one  for  men  as 
well  as  animal  males;  and  that  "as  the  male  in  the 
animal  creation  is  always  the  one  to  take  the  initia- 
tive step  towards  the  copulative  act,"  that  the  ques- 
tion is  thus  forever  settled  that  it  is  best  and  riorht 
for  men  to  pattern  after  brutes  and  beasts.  As  well 
might  such  reasoners  tell  us  that  as  beasts  live  in 
woods  and  caves,  it  is  the  natural  and  therefore  the 
best  way  for  men  to  live. 

But  so  long  as  male  brutes  and  beasts  pursue  the 
force  system  in  sexual  relation,  and  not  wait  until 
invited  by  female  brutes  and  beasts,  they  can  never 
rise  to  a  higher  condition  ;  for,  while  they  so  degrade 
the  companion  in  their  most  intense  nerve  associa- 
tion, that  associate  gives  back  to  them  enough  of  the 
degradation  of  force  in  attempted  resistance,  to  keep 
the  males  down  to  nearly  or  quite  the  same  level  with 
the  females,  and  often  below  them. 

It  is  an  insult  to  the  higher  types  of  brutes  to 
compare  them  sexually  with  average  men,  for  there 
are  few  in  the  whole  animal  kingdom  that  have  as 


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frequent  and  excessive  sexual  relations  as  do  men. 
Among  the  animal  exceptions  are  sheep,  and  but  for 
:8uch  relationship  being  limited  to  a  short  season,  and 
<entire  rest  the  most  part  of  the  year,  the}^  would  not 
long  survive.  Sheep-growers  have  found  that  5,000 
^wes  have  conceived  in  one  such  season  from  a  single  / 
male.  It  is  not  surprising  that  sheep  should  be  so 
wanting  in  intelligence  when  all  of  their  vitality  is 
expended  in  sexual  relations,  for  the  losses  through 
this  source  are  losses  to  the  brain !  The  same  ele- 
ments that  repair  the  wastes  of  the  one  are  requisite 
for  the  other;  and  hence  it  follows  that  those  who 
have  the  most  power  in  either  direction  have  the 
power  to  concentrate  the  greater  part  of  such  power 
to  either  the  purely  intellectual  or  to  the  sexual. 

Habits  of  thought  and  habits  of  life  are  magis- 
trates, and  the  reasoner  will  at  once  see  how  import- 
ant it  is  in  youth  and  young  manhood  to  cultivate 
the  intellectual  and  higher  faculties,  and  let  the  mag- 
istracy be  of  an  ennobling  nature. 

But  to  return.  It  is  not  a  fact  that  in  the  animal 
kingdom  the  males  are  all  tyrants  and  take  the  ini- 
tiative steps  in  sex  relations,  for^  where  they  are  liv- 
ing in  a  natural  condition,  the  relations  of  the  high- 
est types  of  animals  are  mutual,  called  forth  by  the 
female.  When  the  males  assume  rights  of  force  the 
females  resist,  and  hence  the  quarrels.  It  is  said  no 
other  cause  of  quarrels  are  known  to  exist  between 


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male  and  female  animals.  The  supreme  right  of  self- 
hood asserts  itself  even  in  animal  motherhood  abili- 
ties, and  resists  invasion  upon  its  rights — feebly,  per- 
haps, but  resists. 

The  very  desire  for  the  copulative  relation  is  one 
for  the  result  of  the  relation — the  offsprings ;  and 
yet  the  love  itself  is  often  as  much  in  embryo  as  the- 
offspring  itself;  so  little  is  the  subject  understood^ 
because  so  little  thought  upon.  And  yet  no  man  or 
woman  can  love  another  truly  without  a  love  for  the 
future  offspring  that  the  relation  of  husband  and 
wife  is  to  produce.  There  is  something  wanting  in 
pure  love  devotion  if  that  want  and  love  of  posterity 
is  not  felt,  even  if  not  expressed.  The  marriage  re- 
lation from  the  first  should  and  would  be  one  of  no 
false  delicacy,  but  as  a  pure  relation  if  both  men 
and  women  Avere  pure  and  true  to  themselves  before 
marriage,  reserving  their  emotions  for  the  one  who 
was  to  be  the  partner  of  all  joys  and  sorrows  through 
the  dim  vista  of  middle  life  and  old  age.  What- 
ever else  influences  the  youth  of  both  sexes,  neither 
sex  should  ever  swerve  from  the  one  fixed  purpose 
to  love  and  cherish  the  future  husband  or  wife,  and 
never  be  guilty  of  act  or  deed  that  would  destroy  or 
lessen  the  confidence  in  sexual  purity.  The  well- 
being  and  complete  confidence  and  happiness  of  the 
marriage  relation  demands  equal  purity,  and  such 
demand  cannot  be  disregarded  with  impunity.  Cu- 


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141 


mulative  wrongs  before  marriage  tell  the  tale  after 
marriage — perhaps  not  audibly,  but  tell  it  just  as 
plainly  to  husband  or  wife.  To  illustrate,  we  see, 
feel,  act,  smell,  taste  and  hear  all  through  the  nerves. 
All  these  modes  of  communication  are  double,  ex- 
cept the  mouth  from  which  we  send  forth  speech ; 
and  when  that  refuses  to  tell  the  truth  there  is  no 
power  to  stop  the  little  tell-tale  nerves.  And  so 
v^when  every  energy  of  the  whole  system  is  concen- 
trated through  the  most  highly  sensitive  ganglion  of 
nerves,  the  life  story  is  told  in  the  ears  of  the  nerves 
they  meet  through  the  agency  of  the  wonderful 
nervo-magnetic  fluid;  and,  although  the  power  to 
fully  comprehend  just  what  the  life  of  the  other  has 
been  may  not  be  possessed  by  all,  yet  a  sufficient 
comprehensive  power  will  be  experienced  to  fully 
insure  perfect  confidence  or  to  convince  of  decep- 
tion, and  that  of  a  nature  that  there  is  an  object  in 
the  deceiver  concealing  forever. 

Part  Second. 

If  men  were  better  informed  in  regard  to  women, 
they  would  understand  how  it  is  for  their  ov/n  physi- 
cal and  mental  interest  to  respond  to  a  wife's  call,  as 
the  ruling  power  in  all  sexual  relations.  Men  would 
neyer  force,  or  even  coax  their  wives  to  yield  to  them 
if  the  laws  of  the  relation  of  the  sexes  were  well 
understood  with  all  the  insidious  results  of  force,  or 


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or  even  of  coaxing.  Such  is  the  construction  of  the 
nerves  of  the  vagina,  that  w^hen  they  are  not  in  a 
condition  to  hear  friction,  they  are  morhidly  sensa- 
tive,  and  if  compelled  to  endure  it,  either  by  stronger 

\  physical  power,  or  by  persuasion,  woman  feels  a 
1(  repulsion  to  man  through  the  shock  to  the  sensitive- 
nerves,  and  just  as  clearly  as  though  he  had  struck 
her  in  anger.  When  man  uses  force  to  compel 
against  the  desire  of  woman,  even  if  she  is  perfectly 
healthy,  a  poison  is  sent  forth  from  the  walls  of  the- 
vagina  that  injures  his  whole  system,  and  shortens- 
his  days.  So  great  is  this  poison  that  it  sometimes 
produces  an  elongation  of  the  urethra,  causing  in- 
tense pain,  and  has  been  thought  by  those  not  un- 
derstanding the  cause  to  be  a  cancerous  growth. 
Some  are  able  to  walk  about  when  thus  afflicted ^ 
but  months  elapse  before  restoration  is  possible. 

The  poison  that  produces  this  result,  is  an  abnor- 
mal  forcing  of  the  natural  secretions  of  the  vagina^ 
that  are  farther  poisoned  by  the  stinging  nerves  of 
the  vagina  that  act  on  the  nerves  of  the  penis  Avhen 
in  the  highest  and  most  susceptible  condition  possi- 
ble to  any  part  of  the  system,  and  when  beyond  his 
power  to  resist  the  influences  that  are  sent  with  more 
than  lightning  speed  all  through  his  whole  nerve  sys- 

\^  tern.    It  is  in  this  way  that  the  "copper  blowing^ 
lis  accomplished  in  England. 


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145 


The  angiy  wife  holds  a  copper  penny  in  her  mouth 
and  when  the  orgasm  is  perfected  by  the  infamous 
husband  who  forces  her  to  yield  to  him  ;  she  blows  . 
with  nearly  closed  mouth  and  poisons  him  to  death/ 
These  two  kinds  of  poisoning  can  be  readily  under- 
stood when  we  realize  that  the  poison  of  a  snake  is 
harmless,  unless  the  snake  is  angry  and  throws  its 
venom  into  an  otherwise  harmless  secretion,  (as  its 
only  means  of  defense.)  Women  unconsciously  use 
the  first  poison  spoken  of  as  their  only  means  of  de- 
fence against  repetitions  of  tyranny,  and  in  aggra- 
vated cases,  have  used  the  ''copper  blowing"  as  a 
\perpetual  relief  from  a  tyranny  worse  than  death. 

ITothino;  in  life  more  aocsravates  and  ano;ers  women 
than  any  advantage  taken  of  the  sexual  relation,  but 
men  who  complain  of  unappreciative  and  cross  wives 
are  generally  utterly  ignorant  of  the  cause  of  the- 
same,  and  often  out  of  real  spite  to  punish  them  for 
something,  compel  them  to  submit  to  the  sexual  re- 
lation, when  they  do  not  dare  to  strike  them  for  fear 
of  law  finding  the  marks. 

Men  see  that  these  niarital  rapes  quiet  their  wives 
for  a  time  through  fear  of  repetition,  not  fully  under- 
standing that  the  very  quiet  is  a  debility  that  will 
effect  themselves  as  soon  as  a  repetition  is  resorted  to,, 
and  as  soon  as  nature  has  struggled  sufficiently  to  as- 
sert her  right  of  individuality  in  woman,  she  feels  the 
same  anger  so  intensified  that  she  resolves  to  kill  her 


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tormentor  as  a  sure  means  of  getting  rid  of  a  vile  man 
that  torments  outside  of  the  redress  of  common  law. 

But  if  these  men  do  not  pay  for  such  conduct  by 
losing  their  lives,  they  pay  dearly  for  such  fiendish 
cruelty  in  their  old  years,  by  having  helpless  and 
loveless  wives  who  lose  all  confidence  in  them  and 
all  interest  in  anything  that  relates  to  their  comfort. 

The  same  unhappy  feelings  and  unrest  of  soul  that 
they  caused  their  wives,  is  taken  back  upon  them- 
selves by  the  very  relationship  that  gives  little  else 
to  such  men  than  a  fiendish  gratification  that  never 
soothes  and  charms,  but  instead,  exhausts  and  leaves 
about  as  pleasant  emotions  as  the  conquest  of  killing 
a  snake.  And  the  wife  instead  of  being  left  ten- 
derly as  wives  expect  and  have  a  right  to  expect  to  be, 
they  are  left  with  about  the  same  emotions  of  in- 
difierence  as  a  dead  snake  would  be  left,  or  as  a  sav- 
age leaves  a  white  woman  after  his  captive  raping 
of  a  woman  who  has  been  an  hour  in  his  possession, 
too  frightened  to  have  the  power  to  even  attempt  a 
hopeless  resistance. 

And  yet  with  this  terribly  truthful  picture  be- 
fore us,  with  the  mass  of  men  feeling  that  they  have 
a  right  to  demand  of  wives  and  compel  obedience  in 
sexual  relations,  we  look  upon  men  with  a  charity 
that  only  one  who  has  gone  into  the  metaphysics  of 
social  life  is  capable.  For  no  woman  has  enlighten- 
ed them  upon  the  subject  of  real  causes,  and  iin- 


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145 


mistakable  effects,  and  no  man  lias  had  the  facilities 
to  trace  effect  to  cause  and  cause  to  effect  as  we  have 
had,  and  no  woman,  save  a  professional  one,  could 
delve  into  social  life  with  a  full  comprehension  of 
causes  and  remedies. 

The  whole  question  of  the  essential  part  is  settled 
by  ico/nan  alirays  having  supreme  control  of  htr  j^t  rson. 
as  regards  an  invasion  by  men. 

The  sexual  relation  should  be  for  posterity,  and  as 
soon  as  this  is  accomplished,  there  should  be  no  other 
relation  until  another  child  is  desired.  _^  Xo  woman 
properl}-^  balanced  and  witli  perfectly  healthy  sexual 
organs  lias  a  desire  for  such  relationship,  and  if  she 
submits  to  the  same,  the  Language  of  the  Xerves  is 
such  that  the  child  in  embryo  is  so  taught  sensuality 
that  the  coming  man  or  woman  is  affected  for  life 
with  such  antenatal  inlluences.  The  prospective 
mother  begins  to  hate  the  embryonic  child,  as  her 
maternal  love  is  all  clouded  or  destroyed  by  sensu- 
ality, and  she  begins  to  devise  ways  and  means  to 
dtstroy^  instead  of  cherishing  the  little  unseen.  It 
matters  little  whether  woman  is  a  willing  or  unwilling 
victim  of  sensuality,  whether  as  a  wife  or  a  promis- 
cuous mistress,  the  love  of  posterity  is  destroyed,  and 
the  woman  who  fails  to  rid  herself  of  her  unwel- 
come charge,  brings  into  existence  a  sensualist,  a 
thief,  a  robber,  a  hermaphrodite,  or  at  best  an  inhar- 
monious specimen  of  humanity,  that  hates  its  parents 
10 


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for  being  compelled  to  have  such  an  unwelcome  ex 
istence.    All  through  the  period  of  its  embryonic  life 
the  Language  of  the  Nerves  is  constantly  taught, 
and  the  sentiments  pervade  every  cell  of  the  poor 
little  piece  of  infantile  helplessness. 

The  truer  one  is  to  self,  (other  things  being  equal,) 
the  deeper  and  grander  the  thoughts.  Who  can  tell 
to  what  depths  of  unknown  science  the  human  mind 
is  capable  of  evoluting,  if  the  nervo-magnetic  powers 
are  not  injured  in  utero,  or  by  themselves  in  con- 
scious existence.  What  grandeur  of  comprehension 
of  the  eternal  principles  of  brain  power  the  evolution 
of  thought  shall  yet  give  to  the  world,  depends  on  pure 
manhood  and  pure  womanhood  to  demonstrate 

It  is  deplorable,  that  many  of  the  deepest  minds,  the 
most  metaphysical  reasoners,  the  clearest  logicians, 
the  grandest  scientists  and  the  purest  moralists  among 
women,  must  look  in  vain  for  their  equals  in  all  these 
regards,  and  die  without  leaving  to  the  world  speci- 
mens of  humanity  that  shall  be  superior  to  themselves 
and  capable  of  delving  into  the  grandeurs  and  sub- 
limities that  are  now  beyond  conscious  possibilities. 

If  through  the  evolution  of  our  thoughts,  as  con- 
tained in  this  little  volume,  the  women  of  the  future, 
on  both  sides  of  the  great  waters,  shall  have  better 
conditions,  w^e  shall  feel  that  our  earth  life  has  been 
one  of  noble  effort,  that  no  amount  of  contumely 
from  the  degraded  can  rob  of  pure  satisfaction. 


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